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Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners

1st Oct 2012, 20:19

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What flight schools do that students hate?

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Posted By xrayalpha

MJ, If I could fly those hours a year, I...

MJ,

If I could fly those hours a year, I might - well actually, might not - be happy with such wafer thin margins.

As it is, my contingency allowance alone is a tenner an hour!

(And our...

Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners

1st Oct 2012, 07:30

Replies: 43

What flight schools do that students hate?

Views: 13,042

Posted By xrayalpha

Fuel: gosh, why not use - for basic PPL training...

Fuel: gosh, why not use - for basic PPL training - an aircraft with a Rotax 912 and allowed to fly on unleaded.

Take a C42 - fuel burn about 12l an hour at £1.40 pl = £16.80.

Even if fuel goes...

Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners

30th Sep 2012, 13:16

Replies: 43

What flight schools do that students hate?

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Posted By xrayalpha

Dan, We fly about 500 hours per aircraft in...

Dan,

We fly about 500 hours per aircraft in fragile modern plastic microlights - a couple of C42s and some really "fragile" weightshifts.

Finances are interesting: a new C42 is about 60k, but...

Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners

29th Sep 2012, 12:22

Replies: 43

What flight schools do that students hate?

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Posted By xrayalpha

PP, Very often good customer service comes...

PP,

Very often good customer service comes at a price.

To be frank, it means spending time with staff - monitoring and supervising and educating.

The UK in the past has not been good on...

Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners

29th Sep 2012, 08:00

Replies: 43

What flight schools do that students hate?

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Posted By xrayalpha

DD, My point about two uni degrees: how on...

DD,

My point about two uni degrees: how on earth had they gone through at least five years of university education without learning to prepare properly/identify and achieve standards/deliver on...

Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners

27th Sep 2012, 17:21

Replies: 43

What flight schools do that students hate?

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Posted By xrayalpha

What flight schools do that students hate? ...

What flight schools do that students hate?

Flying schools that tell students who "forget" they had a lesson that day that they really should give the instructor some cash, otherwise he/she will...

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