South france flying schools

[tornado617]

Does anybody know of any flying schools near/in Nice? Thank you!

Rick

[Dmitri]

The closest GA friendly airport to Nice is Cannes-Mandelieu (LFMD). It has few "aeroclubs" (UACA, Aeroclub d'Antibes, etc).
Cannes Aviation ( www.cannesaviation.com) is FTO.
You can do your PPL training in any "aeroclub", but Cannes Aviation is the only option for further training (CPL, IR, etc) down here.

[betterfromabove]

T617

PM me if you want some more info...I live in Nice & have had some dealings with the local clubs in Cannes & am N.O.T. impressed so far, to put it mildy!!

And there is very little choice...

Cannes Aviation appear to be an exception, being an FTO but are extremely expensive (300 euros / hour for a DA40) for France. I've yet to fly with them, but they appear a professional outfit.

There's nothing at Nice...

I'm contemplating going to Montpellier at weekends, where's there's allegedly a more serious school, I'm getting so desperate!

Another thing to note is most of these schools (Cannes Aviation being an exception) will have a great of trouble raising an instructor prepared to fly in English...

BFA