Originally Posted by
JabiruFoxbat
Have you thought about doing an FIR at any school other than a VFH school? They generally deliver better training quality with more chance of employment afterwards.
I have but the biggest fear is dropping 20k and being in the same position except, with 20k extra debt from a personal loan. I guess everything is a risk but I applied for 2 x c172 flying gigs the past month or so and the HR department told me "I don't have enough farm hand experience" - even though I've got 140+ hours on a C172 alone (and i actually worked on small crops farms for 2-3 years which funded the ab initio portion of my training). I only mention that because logically, I think to myself that if I cannot land a C172 job (and I've got about 30-40 hours on light training twins), then is it worth taking the risk and being out of pocket for a FIR.