are you $BROKE$ as i am?

[michaud535]

tazzy, by chance is your flying club the windsor flying club? i heard that they did that a while ago.

im a member there now!

[npasque]

i dont know, but im paying AUD$59k for my CPL + Multiengine and Instrument ratings

which is apparently $44,139.95 USD

[PhilCole]

I live in the UK... Pricing up doing my PPL at the moment, and it is nowhere near what you guys pay across the pond... I had heard that it was cheaper to do in the States but didnt realise by how much!

To give you an example... An hours flight instruction based at a regional airport (Bristol International) will cost me £185 (US$ 330) in a C172R, whereas a 1 hour trial lesson will cost around £180 (US$ 315) in an Apex Robin 'Alpha' 120T.

However, if i wanted to pay upfront (which would give me a 5% discount...) it would cost me £6,800 (US$ 11,900). That option gives me 45 hours of 1 - on - 1 tuition in the air, 4 hours radio briefing and radio practical (Does not include books, manuals or away landings). The radio final exam will cost me £95 (US$ 165).

Is it just me or is life just not fair sometimes? It almost seems cheaper for me to fly over to the US and do an intense residential course there. I know I will then have to take a conversion rating to fly in Europe, but it still seems almost 2x cheaper to learn in the US. Glory be!

[Parker Woodruff]

flying, with paying off my car loan got to be expensive for me. I worked with a bank and my flight school to lease a 172 to them. I fly for the fuel price. The airplane pays for itself and my training. $35/hour for my CFII.

[rtlloyd]

.... I worked out a deal with the FBO manager at my local airport...... he didn't like to work weekends... so I hung out Saturday and Sunday and pumped fuel etc...... (The airport is where I would have been anyway). For 1 day at the airport.... I recieved 1 hour flight time in a 150..... instructor not included..... ground school materials sold seperately.

[VaughnWarrior]

Hey flightstudent522...im 19yrs old....i go to college @ Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology...im getting my Bachelors in Flight Operations...so thats my ground school...and i go to Caldwell Air Fleet..and get my flying lessons done there...i pay about $150 for rental, and 4 da CFI..da whole tamale....so yea its pretty expensive...and yes i am broke...i need a job...but im doing it out of loans....lol

[JMsoundscape]

im new here and just started my PPL lessons and like the other thread im doing the bookwork myself (gets a little confusing sometimes) but i can ask my CFII anything i need and i fly once or twice a week for an hr or so each time, almost solo'ed but i pay 75.00 hr for a c-172 and 28.00 hr for CFII wet here at my local field i thought that was decent enough but am going to ask about maybe "workin it off" too...good idea thanks alot and clear skys to all

[Wehyam]

From the UK .. Europe you know.. over the atlantic..

I pay £94 per hour for instruction in a C150.. aerobat. $1.9= £1.0

I own a bit (1/5) of a micro light and pay £26 hour wet plus £36 to the instructor plus insurance and hangerage.. and that's as cheap as it gets.

Most UKGA training hours cost over £100

Hey but I'm old and retired, so I'd only die and leave it to my children.

Yet another rabbit in the air.. my signature!

[sync55]

Palm Beach Flight Training in Lantana, FL has a new zodiac 601XL for $80 and hour. CFIs are $38 and hour.

[trivolver]

I just passed my private pilot checkride and I paid way too much. I decided to use a well known flight school in the Austin area. They have good instructors and good planes, but the price is out of control.

The planes rent at $130/hr, and add $40 for the instructor. I finished with 90 hours, and 60 hours of instruction. Add in books, etc, and it cost $15,000 to get my ticket. Maybe I'm just not the best pilot and needed the extra 30 hours. But I know of two other students at this school who had at least that many hours before taking their checkride.

I don't mind paying for the instructor, in fact I always encouraged them to round up on the hours. But I went through two instructors. The first one left just as I had finished all the FAA required flying. It took three months after that to schedule the checkride - the school was not very proactive in helping out on that because of instructor turn over and generally poor morale (they're all good instructors, just not super motivated to get you where you need to be).

My advice to anyone thinking about flying lessons: Try the discovery rides and take about 5 hours at a school to make sure you like and can handle flying (I was pretty queasy for the first 10 hours). But then find 3 or 4 other people and buy a 172 or 140 or whatever, or find a quarter share and buy in, and then find a CFI to do the instruction.

Never pay money up front for a full program. The first school I looked at went out of business during the time I was training. Of course I could have paid twice for that school and come out ahead.

[hauser]

Man you guys are making me feel bad all i,m having to pay is my owm sweat. I was doing a remodel for some folks and it turns out he's a cfi
with his own planes,c-172, barron and a bananza. he retro fits ag planes
with turbine props. to make a long story short in my spare time I'm
helping him on the planes and he's giving me hours and instruction.

Just went on my first flight today and it went great! The guy didn't
even grab for the controlls, not once. he made me take off, get the thing
trimmed out, learned to stall and land. He's got balls of steel and is a really
cool guy I think i lucked out

[spdt75]

here's another price point for you guys:

mid-atlantic location

not far from philadelphia, nyc, etc.

rental rates (per hr, wet)
c152 $85
c172, archer $125
c172 g1000 $135

instruction- $49/hr