What is Best way to find funding for flying lessons?

My husband is an active Marine and is working on becomming a pilot. He has 80 hrs. for flight time, we want him to fly more, but its like $125.00 per flight hour. Any ideas, how to find more money for private flying hours? We cannot take out a loan.......any advise would be greatly appreaicted.

I suggest he join a local flying club. May of them own their own aircraft, so members simply pay for thier share of maintaining anf fueling the plane. No profit is made, so even flying lessons come very cheap, often approching free. Again, most of the cost is in membership maintainence and fuel.

If you have kids, or not, there is always a paper route. If your husband is really adomant about the lessons, he will be more than willing to p/u a paper and earn extra cash that way.

You don't mention his age, however, the Marines fly aircrafts. Is he able to speak with his commander to get into the Marine flight training program? If he is unable to do that than he can do what most other fly boys go and that is to bite the bullet and build up his own hours until he can qualify as a flight instructor. As a flight instructor, he can log the additional hours he is spending to train others while getting paid for it. Also, most military bases have flying clubs where he can rent planes very, very inexpensively. (He can even go to different bases (forts,etc) to rent them if he has a pilot's license.) ----Last thought, does he have any $$ left from his GI bill for training? That could be a source also.

You might also want to check out any local flying clubs in your area; they often offer lessons at reduced rates compared to full-time flight schools. They can also be a goldmine of flying knowledge and experience with having veteran pilots as members.

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Buy flight simulator 2006 or 2007 for a 100$ its really good and precise learning!

get a JOB !!!

My boyfriend was in the Army. Uncle Sam payed for his training. He may look in to going to the Army they will let you fly with out going to school for 4 years. Doug went to flight school right out of basic training. He may want to try that. Doug got out of the Army as a CW3 with over 3,000 hours.

The "Aero club". You can get a reciprocal deal with the air force aero club (almost every base has one). The instructors are volunteers looking for hours and they don’t charge you much more than fuel/maintenance. Last time I checked “wet time” was about half of your quote. Once he gets his License get his commercial certification right away and he can start flying checks (over night from bank to bank). Usually get you in a nice Cessna 210 and all the hours you can stand..