Flying training in Perth Western Australia

[Tommyb46]

Hi,

Just looking for opinions on the best flying school in jandakot Western Australia.

I have done my own research on pricing and course outline etc, but opinions and recommendations of people who have actually been to these places would be a great help

Cheers

[Suthy]

Hey mate, I'm currently looking at the same.
My Father has hired planes off "air Australia" and did his ME with them, he has never had a issue with them. but for some reason he would like to see me do my PPL with royal aero club. maybe there aircraft are newer i dunno.

i wouldn't mind going through the aviation college though.
so it will be interesting to see who you decide to go with .

[alb92]

Hey mate, I'm currently looking at the same.
My Father has hired planes off "air Australia" and did his ME with them, he has never had a issue with them. but for some reason he would like to see me do my PPL with royal aero club. maybe there aircraft are newer i dunno.

i wouldn't mind going through the aviation college though.
so it will be interesting to see who you decide to go with .

RACWA/WAAC isn't all that great. Planes are quite old, and regularly have some issues and need regular maintenance. They are have had some financial problems, so number of ground instructors has been cut, and there is cost cutting all over the place, and they could really use some newer aircraft. Just recently they had one of their twins go out for an extended time, and the other was constantly having maintenance issues, etc.

The biggest positive though is that RACWA has a relatively big fleet compared to student numbers (which are much lower than they have been previously), which lets you fly basically when you want to fly and train at your pace. I've heard that ACFT has too few planes, so you fly when they can fit you in, and sometimes you have weeks between flights.

Also, I've found flight instructors to be relatively good, with some of them excellent.