$$$$ and the GA route.
When I was paying for my first ''license'', the quote rate for a private pilot certificate was about $1000.00 us...that's one thousand dollars.
gasoline was pretty cheap at about 35 cents a gallon. a chevy automobile was about 3000 dollars. now a days, gas is about three dollars and thirty cents a gallon, a chevy is between 27,000 and 30,000 dollars...or more actually ( I am comparing camaro to camaro!).
i earned $1.65 an hour working in a crappy hardware store to earn enough to fly.
I really don't think flying is all that expensive if you look at it from all other inflation changes.
And there were not any friendly financing for flight lessons then...it was cash on the barrel head.
if you want to fly, its hard...if it was easy, everyone would do it and there would be alot more crashes.
Last edited by protectthehornet; 22nd Dec 2010 at 23:30.