Originally Posted by
Robbiee
If the industry had to rely on people who could both pay their way through life and save enough for training,...?
,...there'd be like ten pilots in the whole world! Seriously, when I was living in my car working two jobs I still couldn't afford flight school!
I did my first hours that way (Bell 47) ..... had a good job net 660 per week and every weekend 500 went to the flight school for an hour Saturday and an hour Sunday and I lived on the rest ... had cheap house rent but hardest part for me was parking my car and using the transit bus
All the other students in my class had parents who put up money or some had good credit and got loans ... one student his dad mortgaged his farm to raise cash.