A few of us are planning a trip to California in October if you're interested.......

we don't do 152's or old doggy planes though :D The best I've found so far is a 2002 OMF Symphony 160 for $75 per hour wet, brilliant aircraft....

EA

When did you plan on going and how many in the group? Have you got a tel number I can call you on and have a chat?

I'll drop you a PM (or send me your email address) when we have more concrete plans. Should be around 20th October to Long Beach for a couple of weeks (for me; maybe longer for the others). At the moment there are three of us, so 4 would be good, then we can take two planes.

Cheers
EA:D

Time Building
 

Hi all,

i'm looking for addresses to do some cheep time building.
anyone have some ideas?
the place I always hear from fellow students is air desert pacific, but I was wondering if there were more options... south africa? down-under?

greetz:ok:

Hi Crosswind

Ive just completed my PPL and most of my hour building here in South Africa. I have to say the training is brillant and its cheaper than most places. Im currently at Superior Pilot Services in Johannesburg and they are excellent. [email protected] or [email protected]
If you need more info please dont hesitate to pm me.
Ciao BL:ok: :ok:

I bought a share in a C150 and flew around for about £25-30 per hour. All the usual hassles of part ownership but still worked out very cheap (and has the plus of doing all your hour building in the UK).

As is happens (and forgive the advertisment) I'm now selling my share. PM if you happen to be interested.

Buzz

Definitely up for that. Just quit the job and took out the mandatory £25k loan for modular courses. Wouldn't mind a trip out there during my groundschool. Long Beach has a cracking reputation from what I've heard.

Regards,

Ratpup

Longfinals

I saw that your thinking about going to s.africa for hourbuilding. Its a brillant place to train as there are some really interesting places you can fly to. I just finished my PPl and some of my hours here in Johannesburg and the school I went to was brillant. Superior pilot services in Grand Central (midway between Pretoria and Johannesburg). They are offering some really good packages at the moment and the gentleman who owns the school is an ex JAA instructor so is very farmilar with the JAA system. Piper 160 just a steal at 55 pounds an hour solo wet rate. However, if you do choose sa I would strongly suggest you try to come in the winter (June - August) as the thunderstorms in the summer are an absolute B***h.
The states is cheaper for flying but once you factor in living expenses etc sa is cheaper (Ive done some detailed research on this) and the beer is cheap and the weather is good apart from the thunderstorms in the summer. What else could one ask for..........

Ciao BL:ok: :ok: :ok:

Hour Building
 

Hi guys i have decided to start training for my fAtpl via the modular route alot of it most likely foreign. This is because it suites my particular situation. I am wondering whether to do my ground school first and then my hour building which will give me the chance to study in my spare time whilst working and saving and also doing a couple of hours a month. Or whether to save go out and do my Hourbuilding come back and start my ground school when i come back and save for my CPL/ME

Any advice given will be greatly appreciated.


PL

Hour building
 

Hi there,

I would certainly do the exams first for the simple reason..................


If you do hour building first,you wont be as sharp and as up to speed after you finish your exams.

It usually takes 6-7 months to complete the exams(if your lucky!!), so therefore its a long time out of the cockpit.

Hope this helps.

Thanks
 

Thanks for you help mate doing the groundschool seems to be the most logical step. Plus i can do the odd few hours every month to keep licence and skills current and will probably mean i have less hour building to in the states

Regards

PL.

:ok:

When I was in your situation I decided to put the flying to the side and concentrate on the atpl exams ... once the exams were out of the way I went streight in to the hour building and the cpl once I had enough time on the log book .
Im delighted I went down this root as when I came to the flight test I was well up to scratch on the flying and also well familiar with the area ..

thanks for you help FT2.0

ME and SE hours building
 

I have recently decided to finish my hours building in the US and the only period available for me is christmas ( which is very soon). I was pretty interested in naples for doing 50 hrs on a C150 and 50 on the seminole (as the prices for ME flying are very interesting in the US) But they require 300 hours total time to rent it. Does any one know a place with cheap fares and having requirements less restrictive for ME flying? I have 160 h TT with 110 P1.

Regards

winch

WL, check your emails pls...
 

Text too short so once again check your email pls.

The email adress that was on my profil was an old one that I don t have access to anymore. I have just updated it. Don t hesitate to contact me.

Thanx

Winch

Winch Launch

I was in the states this summer just gone. The thing I found with Multi engine is that the insurance requirements seemed to require 50 hours on type before solo rental. After getting the rating, one guy I know had to have an instructor sit with him for every other flight!

May be different else where, but you will want to be sure, especially when it comes to CAA validating your log book.

GM

P1 with a safety pilot?
 

Looked through few threads and it seems that air desert pacific is the good thing for me. They told me I could fly ME aircrafts but with a safety pilot. And apparently even though you have a safety pilot with you, you can log the hours as P1. Has anyone encountered any problems in validating those hours as P1, regarding JAA regulations?

Regards

Any flight school will have instructors lined up to fly with you. After you have your license you are logging PIC, so is the instructor although they will never touch your logbook. Ah the beauty of FAA.

need time building IFR and turbine
 

Hi everybody!

Does anybody know a way to avoid combining flying and big money?
CPL IR need to build hrs. mainly IFR and turbine.

Many thanks.
albatros146