That's $466 per day to go from 0 to airline pilot certificate.
Airline pilots make good money, but leaving one of those schools you really won't have enough experience to get a job as an airline pilot, and if you do, you'll start low (1st officer) and it will take a while before you earn enough to make that back. The big metric in the pilot industry is flight time, and in 150 days you can't get enough flight time to compete with the lifelong pilots.
A good course for many people is to go right into instruction. That way you make some money while building flight time on someone else's dime. This is actually how it works at ERAU. The Juniors and Seniors train the others.
Also, a private license is closer to $10,000 now, mostly because of fuel prices. It used to be a cool $6000 though.
To go from 0 to being able to earn money flying (commercial license) will cost about $20,000 last I checked.
Airline pilots make good money, but leaving one of those schools you really won't have enough experience to get a job as an airline pilot, and if you do, you'll start low (1st officer) and it will take a while before you earn enough to make that back. The big metric in the pilot industry is flight time, and in 150 days you can't get enough flight time to compete with the lifelong pilots.
A good course for many people is to go right into instruction. That way you make some money while building flight time on someone else's dime. This is actually how it works at ERAU. The Juniors and Seniors train the others.
Also, a private license is closer to $10,000 now, mostly because of fuel prices. It used to be a cool $6000 though.
To go from 0 to being able to earn money flying (commercial license) will cost about $20,000 last I checked.