UK Flight Training Long Beach, CA
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From: Staines, Middlesex
UK Flight Training Long Beach, CA
I am thinking about doing hour building at UKFT does anyone have any experiance of this FTO?
Have read a bit about them on pprune but just wondering if anyone had been there recently!?
Have read a bit about them on pprune but just wondering if anyone had been there recently!?
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From: Wales
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I was there last year. Good experience, fantastic place to fly but the usual advice, dont pay for anything up front. AJay is first and formost a businessman.
They use Rainbow Air planes and check out rides are with their instructors. All the planes I flew wer OK, the usual hire fleet small problems but technically sound.
Be careful of the weather as they have quite a few low vis days in the LA Basin so if your not IR then this could be a problem.
They use Rainbow Air planes and check out rides are with their instructors. All the planes I flew wer OK, the usual hire fleet small problems but technically sound.
Be careful of the weather as they have quite a few low vis days in the LA Basin so if your not IR then this could be a problem.
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Did my JAA PPL when they were still doing them 3 years ago. Flew there in December and February. Hardly lost any days due to wx. In December a few days can be lost due to the Pacific storms. Smog/haze was there pretty much all the time - except after the storms. Occasionally had to be careful with the Santa Ana winds and x-country through the Banning pass. Over all I think I lost two days due to the storms in the four weeks I spent there.
When I went back to do my FAA IR at Santa Monica in March - much more chance of losing time due to the marine layer. Rolled in, rolled out half the runway would be covered the rest would be in clear blue sunshine.
PC
When I went back to do my FAA IR at Santa Monica in March - much more chance of losing time due to the marine layer. Rolled in, rolled out half the runway would be covered the rest would be in clear blue sunshine.
PC
