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Old 21st Mar 2007, 04:41
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NoseGear
 
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bang on

Horn, thats the place mate. Very nice and experienced instructors, nothing at all wrong with their operation, very professionally run I think, but the cost is quite prohibitive. Your again pretty close with the hourly rate, its $1000/hr for the type rating, then you can fly "dead head" sectors for 100/hr, which is a pretty good deal, and then the flight test is back at 1000/hr, for around 2.5 hours duration. Don't forget to factor in hotel, food and transport to and from and in and around the thriving metropolis that is Wanganui The hiccup in the "dead head" sectors is that they now use their Kingair almost exclusively, as you would, so the Mojave doesn't do all that much in the way of flying. You tend to end up just hanging around for a week for 1 or 2 hours, unless you get pretty lucky. I just didn't have that kind of time to waste, and neither would I imagine would anyone else. The joke about the NZ ATPL is that I am flying a modern, all glass jet, but had to go back to piston powered, steam driven gauges and go beacon bashing just to prove that I "qualified" for an ATPL
Anyhoo, best of luck to you mate, congrats on the job, have fun
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