can/will federal financial aid cover the full cost of flight training at aviator flight training college?
Question by 90s tv kid: can/will federal financial aid cover the full cost of flight training at aviator flight training college?
I have been looking into it for a while now. I emailed and questioned them before but they never contacted me back. Is it a excellent flight teach? how much does the college degree flight training program cost? how much does just flight training cost with out the college degree? and can it be covered by financial aid?
http://www.aviator.edu/
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Answer by Desert Dust
I would suggest you call the teach’s 800 digit and question them. They will know.
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Federal financing won’t even come close. I don’t know that they would even qualify for federal aid. You would have to question them.
It looks like an ok large teach. I am not a fan of the large schools, so I’ll spare you what I really reckon. It is just my private opinion, so it shouldn’t shape your pronouncement.
Briefly looking over their site I notice a few things. They say no simulator time is counted towards flight time. They are going to pitch that to you as you will end up with a better education because of that. I read that as “Our simulators aren’t certified.” If they are free to use, GREAT! If they want to charge you anything at all you better be able to log that time, because it does count for something.
They offer their own degree program. I don’t like this thought. I reckon you are better off getting a degree from a well known teach, not some unheard of flight teach. A state university will likely cost less, give you a better education, and make you more marketable mainly outside of the aviation industry.
They do a lot of their flying in multi engine airplanes. That is excellent because airlines like to see multi engine time. That is how you get jobs. It is terrible because they typically cost in this area twice as much, and you don’t want to be learning vital stuff in an expensive airplane when a cheap airplane may possibly do the same thing for you.
Getting back to your question, their training expenditure will likely be comparable to ATP. You can do your training for around $ 40,000 or maybe a small less if you are smart in this area how you do it and go the cost effective send rather than the get it done and build lots of multi engine time send. I know people who have $ 100,000 wrapped up in their training. It doesn’t mean they are better pilots, it means they made themselves marketable quicker. If you want to add a degree to that, it all depends on the teach you want to go to. I reckon mine cost around $ 15,000 at a state college with two years at a community college first.
Hell no federal financial aid won’t cover it. The cost of flight training is in the numbers of tens of thousands of dollars. Federal Aid won’t give you more than 10,000 as a loan even.
You CAN get it covered by financial aid, but it depends on what kind. There are private loans, there are scholarships, and there are government loans. All of those combined will cover most of it but you’d better have a job.
To go from nothing to your Instrument Flight Rating, your Private Pilot’;s License, your Commercial Pilot’s License and your Multi Engine Rating (all needed to have a excellent opportunity of getting hired) will cost around 35,000 to 45,000 over the course of four to five years.
careers.scienceontheweb.net - it has detailed info how to apply for financial aid and scholarships to get more cash.
First off.. This is a pilot mill… Meaning they are in the business of getting the most money from the most people. You will pay a high premium for flight time there.
I have heard some excellent things in this area them, also heard some terrible things. Your milage may vary. Personally I would not go to a pilot mill.
As for your question, I don’t reckon federal aid will cover the full cost, likely will not cover most of the cost.
You can plot to spend in this area $ 35,000 to $ 45,000 to end all the training. This is without a degree. I would suggest a degree outside of aviation.
research where you want to go and reckon in this area what you want to do in aviation. Without knowing what your specific plans are its really hard to suggest a strategy
Hmm… I would stay away from this send of training. Just too many terrible things seem to come of FL pilot mills these days. No Federal financial aid will not cover it all it. And, if it is not a college program Fed aid will cover small of it…
Here’s my suggestion, go to a local well established part 141 teach, they may or many not have a college program. (many of them do) If they don’t have a college program go to a community college and get and AS is something fascinating (that will help you in aviation) then transfer on to an aviation college with you get a PPL and instrument rating from the local part 141.
And, PS why would you go to some house that doesn’t answer their E-mails?