talked to flight school today
 

not bad prices, cheaper than i thought. said the whole course would cost around $4200. instructors are $25/hour, and plane rental is $63/hr for cessna 152, $106/hr for a 172. 50 hours or less instruction. they said if you go over that, they ground you :)

they sound like a pretty good school. going to go out for a ride one of these days soon. it would be basic 1-hr instructor/plane, but they give you credit for the demo if you take courses, and for referrals. :thumbsup

I drive like I have a vagina....the idea of me flying would be very very very very scary.........

it costs like 11k in australia to get private pilots license

damn... 11k us? yikes! this would be it, for single-engine cross country and all. i've heard good things, apparently these guys know their shit. and it's at a real aiport (instead of one of those little airfields), and the guy claimed if i could fly out of there, i could fly out of anywhere :)

no thats australian dollar

ask them bout that no plane landing lessons discount

indeed it would :)

eh, landing's the easy part, just cut the throttle and let 'er drop...... right?

Hey buster! I'm pretty sure I'm offended by this remark, but I'm just not sure why........:winkwink:

what do you want to know about flying? I can answer a lot I think! And 106 for a 172 seems a little steep!

regards,

strato

Nice prices, how much to fly a 747 lol

Why do you want to learn to fly? Just curious

How long would a course like this take? A couple months?

Is there really adult webmaster types out there that want to fly? Just curious, I would have never thunk it!!! I fly for a living and would be happy to help in that area!!! Of course I fly ems helicopters for a living which is a little different than a 172 but I also flew those a long time ago

I have also been looking into flight instruction at a couple local airports.

yeah, i totally love the flying thing. i figured i'd do the 152, instead of buying right away, that's fairly cheap. 50 hours of instruction...

$1250 for instructors
$3150 for plane rental, really that's not too bad. and that's assuming i use all 50 hours.

haha, 2 hrs, 3 times/wk, that's only 2 months :thumbsup

That is cool, if you are ever in Florida I can take you up in a BK-117 on an ems flight and you could see a working machine do it's thing! If you don't mind the ems helo action of course!!!

regards,

strato

a helicopter ride would kick ass :pimp

dude, I fly them every day....and they do kick ass....I have been flying them for 16 years now and what we do with them is really amazing sometimes. I landed on a creek bank this afternoon and picked up a drunk that broke his neck diving in the water, we put them in some really tiht places sometimes! i have several hundred fixed wing hours and have been flying helo's since the military and wouldn't trade it for anything....if I could only get this adult webmaster thing down!LOL

My total time is around 7000 hours now.

regards,

strato

they're expensive tho...


do you fly one of those kick-ass ones... arg, can't remember the name... with the rear rotor as a ducted fan in the boom?

No, that would be either the MD900 or the EC-135, I fly the BK-117 which is the one a lot of ems operators use. Want to see the exact machine I fly go to http://12.108.124.229/cjpublic/airme...mpageneral.htm

ahh, the siloette looks like some of the life flights around here...

they fly these things all over the place, gotta go and get some sleep.

regards,

strato