[Eagle]

Many of the posters on Fltinfom.com are NOT pilots, many are posting simply for the fun of messing with people (like you). This is why I spend as much time as I do on this msg bd and not some of the others. Here you will get the strait scoop, as presented by people who are flying for a living, going to flight school, to achieve the same and so on. When a poster gets out of hand or pitches some line of BS, people will jump on them and make the corrections ASAP.

With that said,

If you had a plan in your head that you were going to go to any flight school, and come out with a job, at a regional you are mistaken. That goes for the graduates of today as well as 3 years ago. *SOME* people were able to make that happen, but no one ever knows who they are, and those few never seem to pop their heads up and say yep that was me hired with 300hrs.

Read the post By John (ClearedILS) in the general section about being hired. It shows that you can get hired without a butload of time. I got hired with just over 1000 hrs.

So can you expect to be flying 152s with fat people for students? Yep! Is going to FSI or the like the fastest or best way? Not sure it depends on your situation, current job family life spousal support etc. all of those things weigh in.

If you have a good job, and a solid family life I would go the local FBO route. And just make an effort to fly fly fly… It would not take all that long to get your CFI at a fraction of the big school cost and you are on your way.

People often comment “I can’t see flying every weekend and making it fast enough” That is correct. So what you do is Fly Mon evening/Wed evening Fri evening /Sat all day /Sun all day You can do it if you are willing to sacrifice.

fwiw