Commercial Flight Training Pitfalls

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been busy with other things.
So I'm training to be a commercial pilot now. Getting ready to be another Chesley Sullenberger. It's funny how most people relate the words commercial pilot with an airline pilot when it actually means that you can fly for hire just as a commercial truck driver can drive for hire.

This part of my flight training took a lot of hours and many months because of my slow learning, waiting for student loans, and the flight schools failure to provide me with training aircraft when scheduled. If I knew than what I know now, I would have pulled out of there and found a flight school closer to home, but that's all spilt milk now. Did I mention that I didn't start my commercial flight training until three months after I got my private? I had to wait for student loans to come in, meanwhile they did let me take ground courses.

The first forty hours of training was in the Cessna 152 practicing soft and short field take offs and landings, chandelles, lazy eights, stalls, slow flight and steep spirals. I don't think that they require steep spirals anymore but they are fun to do. A good way to lose altitude fast. I also did eights on a pylon and eights around a pylon and emergency procedures.
Then another month wait because of student loans. That is a total of four months waiting for paperwork to come in and was killing my retention. I'm telling you about these gaps in my flight training for a reason that I'll get into later on another post. Just keep this in mind.

Well it's now July of 91', almost a year since I started my flight training and I'm ready for my first phase test so that I can transition over to the Cessna 172. I passed, and began doing basic maneuvers in the 172. After my first two hours another gap. This time for over two months.

I'll try to post more often because I think that anyone contemplating attending a flight school should read my experiences and try to avoid the problems that I had, and it could save a lot of money just by knowing what pitfalls you might run into. For example, being enrolled in flight training and not training for two or three months because of student loans will cost you extra rent and take longer to get a flying job because it takes longer to complete the course and get certified.