The question has to be, for people with student loans, how do you get out of paying it back. Someone must have a cleaver little way to get out of it. I believe a few years back if you were out of the country for a certain amount of time(5 years i think) then they would just forget about it, but have since changed that. How can someone justify taking a 170000 dollar loan for a chopper licence. It will take them the rest of there life to pay back on the average chopper pilots wage.