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Originally Posted by HMS CALPE  One option to consider is to buy 100hrs block time from Falcon Flight Orlando in a Beech Duchess (IFR). You can buy 2ea 50 hour blocks at 172hr. That is $17,200.
Sound expensive? I don't think so. Take the $30K you will spend getting all of your ratings at your FBO, your numbers, add in 100 hours doing cxc in Florida and your total comes to $47,200. Compare that to going to ATP to get all of the "ATP twin time" and you will have saved over $8,800. Not only that half of the xc twin time at ATP is safety pilot time. The 100 hours from FFO would be 100 hours of true PIC, just make them all xc.
That is one idea, but I am sure DE727ups has the best answer.
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If you want to make an "apples-to-apples" comparison with ATP, then get a buddy to do it with you. Each of you buy 100 hrs block time, you'll get 100 hrs PIC & X/C (of which 80-90 will be simulated), and 80-90 hrs PIC safety pilot. (If you can get checked out as a MEI then you could log dual given for the time your buddy flies and be able to log all of the time you're in the plane with him, not just when he has the hood on.)
At the end of the same $47,200 you'll have over 200 ME and about 500-550 TT (assuming you get your CPL ASEL at 250 TT and add CPAMEL, CFI, MEI and CFII in the next 50-100 hrs).