Since I was the only one to quote figures, I guess your comment about costs being off was directed at mine.
The difference is, the costs I quoted are for ab intitio to CFI/I that still runs to around $40000 if you do it in minimums.
Guess at more like $45000 for average and as high as $60000 if you pick it up slow. I heard of one person taking $25000 just to get their private because the school they were at wasn't too good.
A commercial license appears to be pretty much next to useless by itself so you may as well just stop at PPL.
Other thing is, everyone will quote the minimums to the various qualifications, but the average round here is more like 50 hours to PPL.
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