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Originally Posted by vladi34  Then he went on to say "We also need to look at the bigger picture and in your current condition you are going to be unhierable by the airlines. We train airline pilots here and I would not think it would be good if we trained you and you could not get hired by anyone." I kind of see where he was going with that, but once again I paid them to train me to fly and not to make the decision if I will be hierable or not, that should be up to me. |
I think he is correct. They are in business to train pilots to be hireable for airline flying. It would have been a bad turn to take your money with the belief that they could not help you ultimately achieve your goal.
It definitely would have been better if this information had come to light
before you turned things upside down to make it happen.
I'll parrot what most others have said: get your Private at a local FBO on a pay-as-you-go basis and use that time to shape-up. If you are unable to make it happen in that low-stakes situation, that's a cheap life lesson for you and your family.
There used to be a rhetorical question, "Have you ever seen an overweight new hire?" Then it became "very overweight," and then, added to the end was, "that started out that way?"
(Not to sound like a djerk. I need to lose some too.)