@Gargantua:
It’s basically pay as you go…
$600 or so for ground school (About 40 to 60 hours)Â then you pay to rent the plane ($100 to $150 per flying hour)Â you’ll need an instructor for atleast 15 hours…Â who is also $50 an hour in the air, and $50 an hour pre flight.
So each session in the beginning is about $300… but as you progress, it gets cheaper.
The cool thing about renting a plane is you only pay for the hours it’s actually running/flying. (To an extent) so say you want to do a day trip, a 1 hour flight there 1 hour back, it’s only $300 + gas, which is roughly equivelant to car gas, except you cover WAY more ground.
Then there are all the medical permits etc etc, $50 here, $100 there… but you get it all done as you can! :D
Commericial pilot is a different deal… and if you want to be an astronaut, you HAVE to atleast have your pilots license.
A pilot license is the drivers license of the next century IMO!
I see. Well, it is something I do want to do. Good thing is, I am young and do have some time to spend doing it.
