Todays Cost of getting a PPL

Sylvain writes:

although in France you have the option of paying neither: your
landlord won't be able to kick you out if you stop paying rent
(they cannot by law do so in winter, and it's pretty darn
difficult the rest of the year -- you can drag on the process
from winter to winter pretty safely -- it can take years to kick
out a non paying renter -- and large legal bills that most
landlords can't afford) ...

I've already come very close to eviction.

and EDF --- the state run electricity
company -- won't be allowed to cut your electricity supply either
even if you don't pay. And you might very well qualify for RMI
-- it's French for free money/lunch.

RMI is very low, about 400 euro, I think.

Here you go, we solved you budget problem; where is the closest
airport?

I don't think so.

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Blanche writes:

Then you probably have an illegal or very old copy of MSFS.

I checked. The actual price was 39 euro.

Then how can you legally install and run your flight sim?

The owner of the computer has loaned it to me for my use, since I
cannot afford a computer of my own.

France is a signatory to the Berne Convention of 1986 regarding
intellectual property law.

So?

Most of us (actually, I'd estimate 99.9% of us here) have worked
and saved and made choices in order to fly.

Most of you have not been wiped out and deprived of employment by
economic changes, either.

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Blanche writes:

But you certainly have the money to pay for internet access ...

No, someone else pays for my Internet access.

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Sylvain writes:

you shut down the computer, take a shower, shave,
put on clean clothes, and *get outside!!!* (you
know, outside, where there are actual real living
and breathing people, some of whom are female);

I rather doubt that female pilots are common enough to make that an
efficient method for finding them. And it seems like a lot of work
for no obvious useful purpose.

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B A R R Y writes:

She doesn't NEED to be a pilot! G

Then what is the point?

One doesn't offer motorcycle or custom car rides only to women who also
own custom cars or motorcycles. Kabeesh?

I don't offer rides to anyone, as a general rule.

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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Every month is like that for me. Someone has to help me or it won't
all get paid, as I don't make enough on my own to pay it.

Have you considered mturk.com? They pay for tasks that take just a few
moments to carry out online from your computer; you can do as much or as
little work there as you like.

--Gary

adeian writes:

If you can be bothered to look..

http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/a...atistics/2005/

Thanks. Looks like about six percent of pilots overall in the U.S.
are female. About 3.5% of ATP pilots are female. Around 6.6% of
flight instructors are female.

For comparison, about 80.5% of flight attendants are female.

The total number of pilots is 609,737, representing just over 0.2% of
the population, or one person in 492.

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Blanche writes:

All of life is a sacrifice. When I was in the market to buy a house ...

A house? What's that?

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Hmm, let's compare the cost of an inanimate object with the long term costs
of nurturing a human being.... Nope, it doesn't work like that, nice try,
but totally an utterly off base.

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Jay Honeck writes:

Things obtained for little or no money or effort are likewise valued
little.

So I guess adopted children are valued much less than business jets
and large homes.

Whoa! Non sequitor...?

Not at all. The cost of adopting a child is much lower than the cost
of a business jet or a large home. If things obtained for little or
no money or effort are likewise valued little, then adopted children
should be valued less than jets and homes, because they certainly cost
less.

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Maybe you need to look for male flight attendants as a 'leg-up' on your
aspiring aviation career?

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Sylvain writes:

you shut down the computer, take a shower, shave,
put on clean clothes, and *get outside!!!* (you
know, outside, where there are actual real living
and breathing people, some of whom are female);

I rather doubt that female pilots are common enough to make that an
efficient method for finding them. And it seems like a lot of work
for no obvious useful purpose.

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