Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Flight Training Recommendation

 
> Posted by: "L. Bruce Jones" bruce@ussubmarines.com
>
> My wife is currently training for her private certificate at Redbird
> Skyport in San Marcos, Texas. After accruing just 12 hours in almost a
> year in Coeur d'Alene, we drove our RV down here so that she could take
> an accelerated course. The 141 flight school is a subsidiary of Redbird
> Simulators and just opened last November. The new facility is
> absolutely remarkable with four advanced full motion simulators a
> student can use for free. Several G-1000 sims, several communications
> trainers and a very cool crosswind sim. There is a fleet of brand new
> G-1000 equipped 172 SPs and a policy in place that the 172s are
> replaced at 1000 hours.
>
> The field has a control tower and very light traffic, great year-around
> weather and it appears to me to be the perfect place to learn to fly or
> get an advanced rating. There are some remarkable benefits to flying
> the sims at no cost and the PPC is guaranteed for $9500. I'm doing a
> G-1000 transition, some refresher time and a BFR. We'll both come back
> later in the year and do our instrument training.
>
> The Redbird sim outfit is one of the few aviation businesses that is
> remarkable successful these days and they don't mind spending some of
> their cash on their great flight school. Our goal is to fly an RV-10
> around the world next year behind a DeltaHawk XP V-4 diesel and we're
> very glad to have found Redbird Skyport.
>
> L. Bruce Jones, CEO
> U.S. Submarines, Inc. • Triton Submarines LLC
> Poseidon Undersea Resorts (Fiji) LLC


Thanks Bruce, for that report.
Tell us something about "Poseidon Undersea Resorts" sometime.

 
> Posted by: "Helen Woods" Helen_Woods@verizon.net
>
> 141 does not guarantee a pass and that's actually pretty good for a PPL
> especially on a new C172. Sure we can do it on an LSA for that or less
> no problem but a C172 that is operated near sea level and not
> consistently leaned (as often happens in flighttraining) is burning
> close to 10 GPH of avgas. At the current $6/g a 70 hour rating (that's
> about the national average) will burn $4200 worth of gas. That not
> including any of the other costs of the plane such as insurance,
> hangaring, or mx or even the instructor!
>
> I'd be curious to see how that school is REALLY guarantees a $9500
> rating. My guess is they have something going like one of our
> competitors where you must pay up front and your fee is non-refundable.
> They use money from all the people who drop out to pay for those who don't.
> Helen


I'd have to think the guarantee is along the lines,
you will get additional training hours for free if needed,
and additional check-ride if needed at no extra cost.


Mike




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