PPL cost these days...
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sorry been away.
I was flying twice a week. The more frequent the flying the more you retain and don't have to go over as much.
Dual was @ 240 an hour solo @ 180. on the cherokee. and on the sportstar dual @ 200 solo @ 160... My average hourly cost per hour including landing fees was a tad under 220. I budgeted on $240 an average cost including landing fee but came under due too not requiring as much dual time and some hours in the sportstar when it came on the line which dropped the cost. My ppl was at approx 50 hours. I skipped the gfpt and would have been less than 50 hours if i hadn't had to wait as long as i did for my medical so couldn't go solo as early as I could off.. The medical cost I don't include as they are totally variable, depending on the extent of the tests and the mood of the dame I think..
Doing the ppl even in the jabs depending on how long you take to master the difficulties of landing them would be somewhere in the same order.
The study booklets I have a background in aero eng so didn't really need too much of that.
Do your research carefully. But honestly pay what you are prepared to pay for the service you get. Like people have been saying work out what the school has to offer you. I personally found gostners excellent. But everybody has different tastes and different learning rates.
I just pulled out my logbook cause i can't find my spreadsheet with the costs but I did 11.2 of solo 38.8 of dual. Can't be bothered working out which was sportstar hours and which was cherokee hours worse case taking cherokee 2016 for solo time plus 9312 dual = 11312 figure 700 in landing fees works So that calculates to 12k. I did say aprox 11k. just a rough calc looking through my logbook I did around 20 hours in the sporstar, almost all of that was dual so 40 an hour difference and the landing fees are cheaper. So like I said I spent around the 11K mark. I was not kidding myself. A headset it is a nice to have but it isn't a MUST HAVE. Besides the ones on the raa website at $130 are actually pretty good. I am waiting to finish my cpl before i buy mine that way it may be tax deductible.
If I was to do it again.. From start to cpl. I would go raa. At 70hours of raa you can commence raa instructor training.. Then Get employed doing raa instructiong at a raa VH school to your 200+ hour mark. Then aproach your boss and say hey look It would be valuable to convert me over to Vh that way i can instruct other students as well. This conversion may become tax deductable as you are employed already as a "pilot" you should really be declaring that income from raa instructing.. But this advise is general in nature independat taxation advice should be sought. Doing it this way could save you a bundle. Because it gets paid out of pre-tax dollars rather than post tax dollars.
I was flying twice a week. The more frequent the flying the more you retain and don't have to go over as much.
Dual was @ 240 an hour solo @ 180. on the cherokee. and on the sportstar dual @ 200 solo @ 160... My average hourly cost per hour including landing fees was a tad under 220. I budgeted on $240 an average cost including landing fee but came under due too not requiring as much dual time and some hours in the sportstar when it came on the line which dropped the cost. My ppl was at approx 50 hours. I skipped the gfpt and would have been less than 50 hours if i hadn't had to wait as long as i did for my medical so couldn't go solo as early as I could off.. The medical cost I don't include as they are totally variable, depending on the extent of the tests and the mood of the dame I think..
Doing the ppl even in the jabs depending on how long you take to master the difficulties of landing them would be somewhere in the same order.
The study booklets I have a background in aero eng so didn't really need too much of that.
Do your research carefully. But honestly pay what you are prepared to pay for the service you get. Like people have been saying work out what the school has to offer you. I personally found gostners excellent. But everybody has different tastes and different learning rates.
I just pulled out my logbook cause i can't find my spreadsheet with the costs but I did 11.2 of solo 38.8 of dual. Can't be bothered working out which was sportstar hours and which was cherokee hours worse case taking cherokee 2016 for solo time plus 9312 dual = 11312 figure 700 in landing fees works So that calculates to 12k. I did say aprox 11k. just a rough calc looking through my logbook I did around 20 hours in the sporstar, almost all of that was dual so 40 an hour difference and the landing fees are cheaper. So like I said I spent around the 11K mark. I was not kidding myself. A headset it is a nice to have but it isn't a MUST HAVE. Besides the ones on the raa website at $130 are actually pretty good. I am waiting to finish my cpl before i buy mine that way it may be tax deductible.
If I was to do it again.. From start to cpl. I would go raa. At 70hours of raa you can commence raa instructor training.. Then Get employed doing raa instructiong at a raa VH school to your 200+ hour mark. Then aproach your boss and say hey look It would be valuable to convert me over to Vh that way i can instruct other students as well. This conversion may become tax deductable as you are employed already as a "pilot" you should really be declaring that income from raa instructing.. But this advise is general in nature independat taxation advice should be sought. Doing it this way could save you a bundle. Because it gets paid out of pre-tax dollars rather than post tax dollars.
Last edited by redleader78; 18th Mar 2009 at 12:21.
