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    Don't Pay Any Flight School More Than $2500 In Advance
    Don't Pay Any Flight School More Than $2500 In Advance
    Don't Pay Any Flight School More Than $2500 In Advance
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    Don't Pay Any Flight School More Than $2500 In Advance

    By Ben Mandell

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    If you have ever dreamed about being a commercial or private pilot, you need this book. Aviation is a wonderful hobby as well as an incredible profession. This information will help help you save thousands off of your pilot training costs. The author details how to pay for your training as well as how to avoid the traps. This book has the censored information the bad guys don't want you to know!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBen Mandell
    Release dateFeb 4, 2014
    ISBN9781311083845
    Don't Pay Any Flight School More Than $2500 In Advance
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    Ben Mandell

    Ben Mandell is a commercial pilot and a leader in the aviation industry. Ben has testified before governmental commissions regarding the flight training industry and has pushed for consumer protection laws to insure that pre-paid student flight school tuition is safely protected.Ben has a unique understanding of how all of the pieces fit together within the aviation industry and has been instrumental in helping pilots and aviation employees at all job levels within the industry.Ben works tirelessly within the industry to help improve the quality of life for everyone connected within it. This book is a direct result of his desire to help prospective pilots avoid the bad guys and keep their career on track.

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      Book preview

      Don't Pay Any Flight School More Than $2500 In Advance - Ben Mandell

      DON'T PAY ANY FLIGHT SCHOOL MORE THAN $2500 IN ADVANCE

      The Censored Information The Bad Guys Don't Want You to Know

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      Ben Mandell

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      E-Book Edition

      DON'T PAY ANY FLIGHT SCHOOL MORE THAN $2500 IN ADVANCE

      Copyright © 2014 by Ben Mandell

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

      eBook Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please log on to your retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Print edition ISBN 978-1-60796-685-2

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to the brave aviation folks that came forward with incredibly sensitive information about how pilot flight training has been operating in the United States for the past thirty years.

      These brave people put their jobs and their lively hood at risk so that this information could be documented. It is my hope that by furnishing this information to the prospective flight student, whether you are embarking on a hobby or a professional career, that I can stop the bad guys from stealing your dreams.

      Knowledge is power.

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Preface

      Introduction

      In the beginning

      The Jerks at WEBS.COM

      Why AOPA sucks

      Real Stories of Aussie Air

      How the Big Scam Works

      The Fake Scholarship

      Tips to Save You Money

      Costs and How to Pay For Your Flight Training

      Contracts and Conditions

      What You Should Consider If You Are Thinking About Flight Training

      He Who Holds The Gold Rules

      Foreword

      Becoming a pilot can be a wonderful occupation or hobby. Many people have the dream to fly airplanes from the time they are a child. Flying an aircraft is one of the most incredible things that a regular person can do in their lifetime.

      Flight training is also one of the most expensive educational endeavors that a person can embark on. Flight training can cost more than $70,000 per year in the US. It will also take several years to obtain all of your ratings and hours if you want to become a commercial pilot that transports passengers.

      Most people in the aviation training industry are honest hardworking folks. These people have a love for flying and want to pass that knowledge along to future pilots.

      Unfortunately there are also some bad guys in the aviation training industry. These bad guys are bad for the industry and bad for you. If you aren't careful, they will steal your dream and steal your money.

      This book will show you how to avoid the bad guys and keep your dream alive.

      Preface

      Some of the information contained in this book was originally published on the Jet University student website while I was a student at the flight school. It has been reprinted here with permission.

      When this information was first gathered together, I had no idea that the students (myself included) had been scammed by a scheme that had been around the flight training industry for over 30 years.

      The student website (jetunivesitysucks.com) remained up and active for 5 years until it was censored by WEBS.COM. In late 2013, WEBS.COM took the website down because they deemed the information, that you are about to read, too controversial.

      Introduction

      Over the next 10 years, the demand for professional airline pilots is going to be greater than anytime in history. There has been talk of a pilot shortage for many years. It has never happened and most people, within the industry, thought it would never happen. Well the pilot shortage has happened and it is here now.

      As I write this book in 2014, flights will be canceled this year because there are not enough pilots to fly the commercial airliners. This is creating a demand that the bad guys in the flight training industry will attempt to exploit against those that are unaware of the knowledge which is contained within this book.

      My sincere hope is that this book will save you more money on your flight training than any other book that you will come across.

      You are to be congratulated for your smart purchase of this book. This book will save you thousands of dollars, in lost tuition, and will help keep your dream alive.

      Chapter One

      In the beginning.

      When I was 10 years old, I had two dreams that would not go away all through my adulthood. It's not unusual for a child to have dreams. It's actually encouraged and considered a healthy sign of growing up.

      One of my dreams was to fly jet airplanes. That dream would stay with me my entire life and it has still not gone away. I am pleased to report that that my dream did indeed come true and I hope your dreams come true as well.

      This book would never have been published if everything had gone smoothly along the way. After all, there would not have been a reason to write this book!

      But as you probably know by now, things in aviation are not always what they seem. This book has the information that you really need, to help you identify when things are just not right. If you pay close attention no one will be able to steal your dream or your money.

      If you are reading this you are probably a prospective flight student or are involved in the industry in some form.

      If you are one of those flight schools that collects tens of thousands of dollars up front from students, before you furnish the flight training, you are not going to like this book.

      The information in this book has been known in the flight training industry for at least three decades. But no one talks about it. No one has ever published how this works. It's one of those dirty secrets that is swept under the rug.

      There are those in the industry that believe you will damage your professional pilot career by talking about this secret information.

      There is a lot of money at stake here. It amounts to millions and millions of dollars each year.

      What is sad, is the fact that most people in the flight training industry are honest, hardworking people. They don't realize that the bad guys in the industry are bad for the entire profession. If the industry will eliminate the bad guys from the industry then the honest, hardworking people will benefit as well as the students they teach.

      I'm not going to attempt to teach you anything about flying in this book. I'll leave that job to your flight instructor. What I am going to show you is how to save your money and keep your dream from turning into a nightmare..

      There are a lot of bad guys that do not want you to know this information.

      Over the years, a lot of pilots have lost money on flight training. Some of those pilots think that losing money is equivalent to paying your dues. The reason they think this way is because that has long been part of the culture of aviation training.

      There are

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