Originally Posted by
The Boy Wonder
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a school (in the US?) where my wife could get a Private licence quickly and cheaply. I'd actually prefer her to have an FAA licence. The plan is for the rest of the family to have a holiday while she's flying.
Thanks.
Not the best way to word your question, hence the rather hostile replies. But really what do you want quick or cheap ? Because they are mutually exclusive.
If you specify "quickly", the cost part becomes meaningless because to get a license quickly you need a school with:
- a location with consistantly great weather
- lots of aircraft so if yours breaks there is a spare immediately available
- lots of instructors teaching to a standardized sylabus because to progress at the fastest possible pace you will need more than one instructor
- organized and complete ground training facilities and program
- on sight examiner
The there only a few schools in the USA that meet these requirements and they are all the big name airline prep schools.... and you must understand this will be no holiday. It is 12 hr days 7 days a week for a the minmum a whole month.
If you want "cheap", than go to a mom and pop low overhead operation, but be prepared to wait when the aircraft goes unservicable, is away on a rental flight, the instructor takes days off, the examiner is not available, etc etc.