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AVGas for Matt's Pilot Schooling

Hello I'm Matt's wife Cassi and last year we got married in July, and starting Fall of 2015 we are putting Matt through Flight School! The problem we are facing is that it's not like regular college where you pay tution and then you are done.  To be a pilot you also have to pay for fuel for the planes which is called AVGas. For Matt to fly for 1.3 hours (which is average for him) it costs $235 and he is scheduled to fly 2x a week. At 10-12 weeks in the quarter that is $4700-$5640 in total. However, currently Matt needs to fly 3x a week right now to catch up due to the weather, which kept him from flying the lessons required for this quarter.

At this time we have already pulled the loans offered to us by ourselves, and the rest has been coming out of pocket or from family help. We have been working very hard to keep up with these costs but we are running short this quarter, we will run out of money in 3 weeks even though the quarter won't end for another 3 weeks after that. At flying 3x a week as catch up, the cost for him to fly the remainder of the quarter is $2115.

I set our help goal at $3,000 because I would love it if Matt could continue to fly 3x a week to catch up on those hours into next quarter. By the end of this school year he will need a certain number of hours to get he's private pilots lisence, and if he doesn't reach these hours then he will need to fly into summer. Since this requires more AVGas than projected, any extra funding from this project would go directly into his flight account for that extra time. Once that money goes into his flight account, it is not accessable by us so it stays there and isn't spent on anything else. That is our plan for any money donated through this funding. 

Unfortunately, we have a time limit on this funding as we will run out of funds for the flight account in 3 weeks. We know that things aren't easy, especially right after the holidays, but anything you can offer will help. 

It means so much to us that Matt is going to school. He supported me through my 4 years of college and I want to do the same for him. Unfortunately, since he was not awarded any Finacial Aid and we had issues with loans, it was a bit harder than I thought. If you can't help, I totally understand, but we would be so grateful for anything that is provided. 

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this novel, if you have any questions please feel free to ask.

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Cassi Schutt
Organizer
Moses Lake, WA

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