Well, my full time job has been slow (flying a Citation Jet), so that means I have a LOT of free time. Seeing if anyone here wants to learn to fly. I’m a certified flight instructor, and looking for some work around WNY, I’ll be instructing out of Akron airport, and possibly Lancaster. Either place will most likely be out of a C-172. PM me for more details.
OMG YES.
my step father has his private pilots license. I would love to learn… PM me rates? I was seriously just thinking about this yesterday.
I already know about all the extra costs… your instructor rate is all I need. Is it also your plane, or rented/borrowed from another? and C-172 is a two or four seater?
yeah, i’d like to know more about it too…
just a reference pic for those who don’t know… here’s a c-172.
cteclipse: i’m more interested in citation rental to vegas, pm me if you have any info.
I’ll be pming you later. I’ve been looking into this for a while. :tup:
lol… looks like a 4 seater :-X I’ve only been in a 2 and 4 seater cesna.
At Akron, the Cessna 172 is 90/hr (dirt cheap) but with the high fuel prices add on a 13/hr fuel surcharge, still the cheapest you can find in WNY unless you know someone. That is in a 4 seater airplane, that is somewhat useful, and flys like a real airplane. They also instruct out of a C-152, I hate these planes, they are 2 seaters, weak and underpowered, and if you are larger than average, its going to be a very tight fit, although these go for 80ish/hr after surcharge. Akron makes it a mandatory 40/hr for instruction, if anyone has there own plane or somewhere else to instruct, I can knock it down to 30 hr. Lancaster has Garmin G1000 FULL GLASS cockpits, Cessna 172s. These are beautiful planes. They are nearly brand new, and have more technology in them than most older airliners. They are also a little faster than other 172s. I know it is expensive here, 135ish / hr, but this is CHEAP for a new glass 172. I am not sure the instruction rates there, I’m going to say 35-50hr, that goes to the school, not to me, and they pay me.
wow, that is much cheaper than anticipated. :tup: I’ll talk to you soon for sure
I was assuming a 150-300 per hour… leaning more towards the 300 end with the gas prices up like this, what kind of fuel do they run on? its like 110 octane isn’t it?
Hmmm… just wondering, what do planes get on an equivalent to MPG?
pretty shitty, actually. in the low 20’s i think. Possibly lower. Small passenger planes are SUPER inefficient. At least that’s what the popsci article i was reading in the shitter led me to believe.
huge range…but a small plane like this, is about 10gal/hr. I took me about 18 gallons to fly to put-in-bay a couple weeks ago…that’s about 200 miles away.
about 10MPG, but you’re flying at over 100mph.
ugh… I’ll probably freakout when i see the plane on the walk around lol… we spend 3 - 5 hours inspecting ours before flight. I can find anything wrong lol.
I really want a private pilots license though…
100 Low Lead octane, figure 8 gph, and can cover a straight line distance of 100- 140 miles in an hour. Its not the fastest, but once you start flying places, you don’t want to drive again. Niagara to cleveland, 1.5 hours ish, flew from St. Louis alot, made it in 4.5 a few times, 12 hour drive.
20 hours instructed, 10 hours solo for license right? I’m fuzzy on the requirements… might want to post it here so people have an idea on the total cost of something like this.
Also what dates do you instruct/fly do you fly through the winter? or spring to fall flyer?
Ok so 135/hour, and how many hours until you can take the test to get your license?
I was reading up on this before and figured that after EVERYTHING,(instruction, exams, physicals, etc…) by the time you got your license it was still going to be $3000+.
Yea I hate 150’s too. They burn 30 dollars an hour for fuel, fly everywhere a 172 will go, and have those pesky super reliable O-200’s. I hate them so much that I bought one, and havn’t looked back. Took it to Oshkosh, and it fit so little, that me and the fiancee camped all week, including eating, with only what we brought in the aircraft. I hope you can detect the high degree of sarcasm.
PMed !
under FAR Part 61 which we are doing, AT LEAST 20 hours dual, 10 solo, 40 hours total, and that includes a few cross countries ( 100 mile flights) I finished at a school in 39.5 hours, and I know one other person EVER to finish in around 40, the national average is 55 hours. Also, this doesn’t all have to be done in a month or two, as long as you can get a minium one flight a week in, it can be spaced out a little better. I say 30 hours dual, 15 solo is a good bet, Test is 250 depending on examiner for private test, written test is around 100. Depends how you will want to study , books will be 100- 300, or the videos which are great, i’m not sure of the price. Headset , 100 - 300. Other random materials, 100 . It is not the cheapest thing to get into, but it is amazing!
I can instruct whenever, my real job comes first, which is USUALLY 1-4 days a week, I can see what your schedule is, and we can work out something mornings, evenings, parts of weekends, my weekends until the mid november are busy, (I fly skydivers up in Wilson), but I can usually find room for 4-8hrs of instructing. The winters are iffy, if the clouds are high enough, not snowing, can see far enough, winds somewhat calm, we’ll go.
Cool beans!
explaination on proficiency? is it a flight once a month? 3 full stops and 3 touch and goes?
my father has an Aeronca on floats and needs more hours for his water licsence do you have yours?