“Flight education routinely costs well into six figures, yet students remain subject to undergraduate federal loan caps that were never designed to support them. As a result, capable young people are effectively barred from high-wage, high-demand pilot careers because they have no realistic path to bridge the gap.” Source: RAA President and CEO Faye Malarkey Black, expressing disappointment with the Department of Education’s decision, as part of its RISE rulemaking, not to increase federal student-loan caps for FAA-certified Part 141 flight-training programs by reclassifying them as graduate or professional programs.
