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Originally Posted by gimpy117
Thats why im getting MY A&P. Its too expensive to fly anymore. especially at western. My advisor TOLD me that if i didn't have a lot of money don't fly here.
it's $150,000 at Western Michigan University to get a your commercial. and then you make $16,000 starting. The dream is over. Cheap airfare has killed the pilots salary.
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good luck.
you should enjoy a fair amount of job security as the government mandates job security for A&P mechanics through the regulations.
every airplane is required to have specific maintenance done no matter how much or how little flying it does, as you are aware... theoretically, an airplane could sit in a hangar 90% of the year but would at least be required to have and annual inspection
however, nobody is required by regulations to be a passenger... thus the job of pilot is not "mandated".
