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Old 30th October 2009 | 03:40
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kalavo
 
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Ahh Peugeotboi Nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying you must do the Sharp course otherwise you'll never ever be a real pilot. But you have to start asking yourself some questions... Has anyone at your current flying school flown anything bigger than a Cessna 210? Out of those still standing, how many stand to lose out if you decide to do all your training with Sharp rather than at your current flying school... CPL would be at least $50,000 these days? $70,000 by the time you add an instrument rating. Most pilots will have spent 100k by the time they make it to an airline.

"All they do is take you in for your money, once your done trainning they simply tell you "your on your own" - sounds like most flying schools to me

If a commercial license has no guarantee of a job at the end of it, why are people still lining up to pay for it?


There's a _LOT_ of things you learn once you get out of your flying school and go in to the real world of GA. MS has put his own name on a product and obviously values it enough to make sure by the time you've left, he's taught you as much as he can about the industry and given you exposure to a multicrew RPT in complex aircraft. The endorsement on the Metro isn't cheap and appears to be the difference between the cost of his course and most schools. He's also giving you a lot of experience in the right seat once you're qualified and paying you for it. Sure the copilot time won't help you get in to the left hand seat for LC-RPT, but you're also not walking away as a 200 hour bare CPL with no people/passenger management skills competing against every other 200 hour CPL for a job.

While it appears to be a good course, I personally think you're missing out if you don't head North and fly 210s to the middle of no where - so many stories to tell which just don't happen in RPT
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