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if I spent $200K to get to the airlines, my wife would not only divorce me, she'd shoot me and re-enact the wood-chipper scene from Fargo with my remains.
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I hear ya. I've made the appropriate adjustments to my post.
Of course I went back again and looked at the ERAU CAPT program. Good god. It's $39,500 plus $780 for screening fees, and that's assuming you have your Commerical cert, and your ME and ME Instrument before you apply.
So by my count they'd have you go to someplace like FSA drop $45K (or so there), but you also need a 4 year degree, so that's another $80K (I went to a private college, I'm just using myself as an example...yes I know that other schools are cheaper, but I wasn't planning on becoming a pilot...oy vey). Then go and drop another $39,500 for this CAPT program? My god that's about $165K. And from what I can tell the only thing that you really get out of this program is a MD-90 restricted type rating and 550 TT. Which from what I can tell from reading posts here about type ratings they aren't really worth the money for a pilot with 550 TT since you're not going to be flying an MD-90 for a while. If I'm wrong on that let me know (I'm sure someone would whether I asked or not
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A note to anybody reading this, IMHO if you've already got a 4 year degree your commerical, ME, and ME Instrument start applying for jobs. Me personally I'd rather build 550 TT towing a banner and getting paid than plop down $40K for a restricted type rating and 550 TT in a trainer. Oh I forgot you get all those great classes like "Airport security" (no joke) and "Pilot career planning and interview techniques" (I could probably pay for one of John_Tenney's courses if I really thought I needed something like this...it's maybe worth $150, but not $40K
). And if I really wanted a type rating I'm willing to be that I could get it much cheaper than $40K.
Anyhow, after all that. My point in the original post was, as I've said, don't do something simply for the money, esspecially flying. From what I've seen so far, you'll spend much more time flying and paying for your flying than you will rolling in money.
Oh one more thing...
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I've been out of college for 14 years, so I've made up that $40K... in theory anyway. The U.S. Department of Education says different.
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Tell me about it
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Later.
Naunga