Training dilemma, which way to go?

[AerroMatt]

Get your multi. That's the most expensive. If the feds are paying use the money. Start your cfi after and get as much done as possible before June.

Ditto...

 

[stingray]

I used the GI bill myself to help pay for flight training, at the time I did it was limited to a certain amount. They paid 60% or so up to a certain amount, somewhere around 11,000 plus or minus, I can't remember. This was about 17yrs ago. I'm assuming its changed a little since then. What is the total $ limit that the Hazelwood act will pay for if there is one? or are they willing to pay for your complete training?
Depending on how much time you have to dedicate towards training.
knock out your multi, especially if they whant you to do 15 lessons, Is that 15 flights,or flights & ground lessons togther? about How much Multi time will you have if you follow their planned course?
A point Im sure everyone here will agree with, multi time is so very hard to come by and very expensive. if you got the gov.. willing to pay for your first 10 to 20 hrs or what ever it happens to be when you get done with multi training course "jump on it".
I believe then you will have plenty of time to get your CFI. There is a lot of self-study at least there use to be for the CFI. so The harder and sooner you start to study. the easier and quicker you will be able to do it. You should have no problem getting the multi and CFI by june 1st
Then pay the 40% for the CFII and maybe think about you MEI, its better to have someone else pay for multi time(all flight time).

 

[WestHouston]

I used the GI bill myself to help pay for flight training, at the time I did it was limited to a certain amount. They paid 60% or so up to a certain amount, somewhere around 11,000 plus or minus, I can't remember. This was about 17yrs ago. I'm assuming its changed a little since then. What is the total $ limit that the Hazelwood act will pay for if there is one? or are they willing to pay for your complete training?
Depending on how much time you have to dedicate towards training.
knock out your multi, especially if they whant you to do 15 lessons, Is that 15 flights,or flights & ground lessons togther? about How much Multi time will you have if you follow their planned course?
A point Im sure everyone here will agree with, multi time is so very hard to come by and very expensive. if you got the gov.. willing to pay for your first 10 to 20 hrs or what ever it happens to be when you get done with multi training course "jump on it".
I believe then you will have plenty of time to get your CFI. There is a lot of self-study at least there use to be for the CFI. so The harder and sooner you start to study. the easier and quicker you will be able to do it. You should have no problem getting the multi and CFI by june 1st
Then pay the 40% for the CFII and maybe think about you MEI, its better to have someone else pay for multi time(all flight time).

Wow, thanks for that insight. It makes alot of sense. Here is the skinny on Hazelwood: It was originally designed to help veterans that ran of GI Bill money finish their degree. It simply waives 120 credit-hours, which is generally a bachelor's degree. However, the contractor (Delta Connection Academy) still needs to be paid so as of now, the college (San Jacinto) is shelling out the dough. This is obviously a loophole and as of June 1st, Hazelwood will only pay 60% of training costs like the GI Bill. Technically, you can't use Hazelwood until you've exhausted your GI Bill money (about $32,000), but since DCA was still within two years of the contract with the school, it was not eligible to qualify for VA requirements. So... Hazelwood is paying for 100% of my flight training.

As you can see it's a pretty unique and lucky scenario I found myself in. Now, if I can just figure out how to wrap it up...

Btw, I know multi is expensive and hard to come by, but DCA charges like $255 an hour for their seminole so I was more thinking along the lines of going to Dallas and knocking it out in a weekend for $1500 or so.... if thats still available.