Mr Hat has the best advice here.
Although the school at Mudgee is now long gone (Mike is now a sim instructor for QF and commutes to work from Maroochydore or somewhere
) the
IS a flying school /charter outfit at Scone.
The CFI there is a great bloke
...oh and "Charlie Fox India" has some sage advice too - especially the bit about an appointment to see the CFI! (She's a great bloke too
)
Our school operates on a hour-by-hour basis, although some students
prefer to stump up $1,000 at a time and then fly it off. I can only imagine that having all your students money locked up would make you very lazy about retaining thir business
