"HarDeeHarHar" wrote in message
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So I looked at flight training, and here west of Toronto at the Guelph
airport, it's about $4500 allowing me to carry one passenger,

That's called a Recreational Pilot permit...

$7500 to carry multiple passengers,

That's the Private Pilot Licence...

And hopefully you realize that these costs are estimates only,
and usually ends up being more?

or $8500 (plus 200 hrs @ $125/hr) for commercial pilot...(all in Canadian
$$$)

Hopefully you realize that it's not "or", the cost is in *addition* to
the Private Pilot license you already need, so for your commercial
license, youwould be looking at:

$7500+ (private license training)
8500+ (commercial training)
25000 (200 extra hours)
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$41,000+ total

(And again, these are conservative estimates, not set prices.)

So I have time, might as well go for the commercial licence, and
have me some fun...not that it will get me a job by the time I'm
done (I'll be 51 - 52 by my training timeline).

Not only would you need money as well as time, but also please
be aware that for the Commercial rating, you'd need to pass a
class 1 medical, which is stricter than the class 3 that you'd need
for the Private pilot licence.

Jeff Shirton (PP-ASEL)