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Originally Posted by Jefu  When I was in, most bases had a number of small planes (Cessnas among others) that we could use for the flight training and didn't have to pay to use. A friend of mine and I decided to take them up on the offer, but did not have enough time to finish before leaving our training base. We decided to wait until we got to our first permanent base, but sadly they didn't have the planes there so we would have had to pay for the training at an off-base facility. I so wish I had just done what I could have at the training base and then finished up at the next place. Hind sight is still 20/20. |
Not QUITE 20/20, apparently... Those planes are called the "Aero Club", and cost about the same to fly as they do at an FBO. What you COULD have done (and may still be able to do, depending on the type of discharge you got and how recently) is use the GI bill (
www.gibill.va.gov) to finance a significant portion of your training.