"at all he'll help me out by putting me in his friend's school to get PPL....then will ask his pilot friends to let me fly w/them when they go on a flight to gain hours for CPL"
unsure of FAA rules but JAR states that a PPL pilot must contribute half or more of the cost towards the hire of the aircraft. Also i would question the legalities of flying a either a public transport or commerical frieght plane, however big or small. please people chip in but I thought the AOC of a commercial aircraft was for company, licensed crews only, unless for instruction or hire purposes. May be wrong
my two pennies worth anyway
x-Atreyu-x
and you need 1500 hours to unfreeze an ATPL, i\'m pretty sure its the same in the states, frozen or fATPL can be issued in the minimum training hours which is like 230 or 240 something like that