Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Re: Flight Training Recommendation

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





On 5/5/2012 10:03 PM, vardonx wrote:
> Wow, $9500 for PPL seems pricey to me! For that amount of money I could buy 65 hrs of dual+airplane at the school where I trained. True, it's not a part 141 flight school, so it wasn't a guaranteed pass...
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> --- In Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com, "L. Bruce Jones"<bruce@...> wrote:
>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> L. Bruce Jones, CEO
>> U.S. Submarines, Inc. • Triton Submarines LLC
>> Poseidon Undersea Resorts (Fiji) LLC
>> U.S. Submarine Structures LLC
>> E-mail: bruce@...
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