Students and freshly minted commercial pilots read here!!

[Flying Ninja]

Thanks but I'm about one foot in the bankruptcy hole. I don't have money for anything these days. I'm just trying to find a job that will pay enough for me to pay my monthly CAPT loan. I don't foresee PIC in a single engine any time soon in the next few years.

 

[mcjohn]

What kind of job you lookin for and where?

 

[Flying Ninja]

Primarily IT work but at this point, anything that will bring in money so that I can direct deposit to my lender would be fine by me.

 

[sperfly]

I Give Props McJohn, I toured two of the schools with glossy magazine ads almost vomited on myself at the price tag associated with there training. I went to a state run flight school in Georgia and only had to pay for the flight time, all the ground school and instructors where paid by the tax payers. I am now Chief Pilot on a King Air 200 with only 1200 hundred hours of total time in my book.

 

[mcjohn]

State run flight school in Georgia? I'm from Augusta and lived in Atlanta for a while and never found this place you speak of. Maybe your speaking of the Georgia Flight Academy in Athens? I guess that could be associated with the state through UGA. Do tell!

 

[sperfly]

GAVTC or Georgia Aviation and Technical College and it is located in beautiful Eastman Georgia. I did Private thru CFI in a year and a half, I was patient because it was just after 911. After I finished I instructed there for six months and got my CFII and MEI for the cost of a checkride. Afterwards I got another intern thru the school with the Georgia DOT flying King Air 90s out of Fulton Co. as a Co-pilot. I was there for three months and walked into my present job flying a Chieftain for just under a year and now a King Air 200 single pilot. All of this for less than 25K.

 

[mcjohn]

Damm sperly! I was looking so hard for a place like that because I always knew that GA had great state financial aid support and HOPE grants and all. Never found it though. Dammit!!!!!!!!!!! Oh well I got all mine for 30k but still no CFII or MEI. Thanks for sharing the info. Hopefully someone will read this and go there.

 

[frog_flyer]

theres a place like that in waco texas that looks pretty cool.

couldnt tell ya what the name is, www.google.com

 

[siucavflight]

Yay...rah, rah... I want to be in you...

2200 hrs after 8 years? I guess you're in for the looooong haul. Don't worry, be happy.

You want to be in me???????

 

[mcjohn]

HEEEEEY! This thread's important. None of the jibber jabby!