Can you give me your views on accelerated training for a PPL. I'm
considering this as an alternative to training two days a week for eight
months. The island in Hawaii where I'm at has one flight school, and at
their rates it'll cost me upward of $8-$9K plus! (Money isn't my best
asset.) I'm considering taking a month vacation (2wks in Dec. and 2 in Jan.)
somewhere in the mainland to take an accelerated course. Your constructive
comments and suggestions on this idea are welcomed.

The local flight school has done that for others, US citizens who live in
Europe coming back to get their Certificate. Live at the flight school when
you are not in the local Budget Suites, flying 2-3 times per day.

Check out www.westairaviation.com and give them a call. They are in
LasVegas.

BT

"Vern Torino" > wrote in message
...
> Can you give me your views on accelerated training for a PPL. I'm
> considering this as an alternative to training two days a week for eight
> months. The island in Hawaii where I'm at has one flight school, and at
> their rates it'll cost me upward of $8-$9K plus! (Money isn't my best
> asset.) I'm considering taking a month vacation (2wks in Dec. and 2 in
> Jan.) somewhere in the mainland to take an accelerated course. Your
> constructive comments and suggestions on this idea are welcomed.
>

Keep in mind that while you will have the license, your experience will
be very limited. You only see so much weather, environmental
conditions, etc. that leads to "experience" in a short period of time.

Lynne
ATP/CFI/MEI
BBD-700, BE-300, CE-500, DA-20, DA-50, DA-200, DA-2000, G-1159, G-IV,
G-V, IA-1125, N-265

Lynne wrote:
> Keep in mind that while you will have the license, your experience will
> be very limited. You only see so much weather, environmental
> conditions, etc. that leads to "experience" in a short period of time.

How much weather are you going to see in Hawaii anyway? Whether he takes
9 months to do it on weekends for $10K or 30 days for $6K he will still
be a new PPL lacking time and experience. At least he'll have the ticket
and can start sooner on building actual PIC time and experience.

I'd say go for it.

Accelerated training is a good idea. It will go better if you already have
a sense of how a wing works and what wind does around terrain. If you have
some experience sailing or windsurfing, that will help a lot.

Seth


"kontiki" > wrote in message
...
> Lynne wrote:
>> Keep in mind that while you will have the license, your experience will
>> be very limited. You only see so much weather, environmental
>> conditions, etc. that leads to "experience" in a short period of time.
>
> How much weather are you going to see in Hawaii anyway? Whether he takes
> 9 months to do it on weekends for $10K or 30 days for $6K he will still
> be a new PPL lacking time and experience. At least he'll have the ticket
> and can start sooner on building actual PIC time and experience.
>
> I'd say go for it.
>

On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 04:27:19 GMT, "Vern Torino"
> wrote:

>Can you give me your views on accelerated training for a PPL. I'm
>considering this as an alternative to training two days a week for eight
>months.

I think you'll have more fun with the eight-month program. If you have
a reason to rush things (i.e. you plan to keep going to a commercial
ticket), then time of course is money, and you might as well get it
done with.


-- all the best, Dan Ford

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I just looked at my own first logbook, written on papyrus. I started on
April Fool's Day (of course!) and passed the checkride July 24. Not exactly
accelerated, but not eight months, either. Looks like I flew on average
twice a week. I mostly remember it was fun.

Seth

"Cub Driver" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 04:27:19 GMT, "Vern Torino"
> > wrote:
>
>>Can you give me your views on accelerated training for a PPL. I'm
>>considering this as an alternative to training two days a week for eight
>>months.
>
> I think you'll have more fun with the eight-month program. If you have
> a reason to rush things (i.e. you plan to keep going to a commercial
> ticket), then time of course is money, and you might as well get it
> done with.
>
>
> -- all the best, Dan Ford
>
> email (put Cubdriver in subject line)
>
> Warbird's Forum: www.warbirdforum.com
> Piper Cub Forum: www.pipercubforum.com
> the blog: www.danford.net
> In Search of Lost Time: www.readingproust.com

Vern Torino wrote:
> Can you give me your views on accelerated training for a PPL. I'm
> considering this as an alternative to training two days a week for eight
> months. The island in Hawaii where I'm at has one flight school, and at
> their rates it'll cost me upward of $8-$9K plus! (Money isn't my best
> asset.) I'm considering taking a month vacation (2wks in Dec. and 2 in Jan.)
> somewhere in the mainland to take an accelerated course. Your constructive
> comments and suggestions on this idea are welcomed.

If you can maintain 2-3x weekly for the long haul (easier to say than
do) then I would recommend training at home. Living in HI you have a
good climate to work with, so you won't have the rate of cancellations
I had in Boston.

Second, a lot of us are big believers in the "train the way you fly"
philosophy, and presumably you'll be doing your flying in Hawaii after
you finish. From what I hear, flying in the Hawaiian islands is an
entirely unique proposition with enormous importance on local
knowledge. Training locally you will a lot of this up from you CFI.

Third, how much does a month of vacation cost you? While it will be a
break from your job, it's not what most would call relaxing. Add in the
cost of a plane ticket in prime vacation season and you've probably got
a cost savings of no more than $3,000. That's not much money for a
month of vacation time. Not that flying wouldn't be fairly enjoyable
but after a month of primary training I might be ready to go back to
work.

-cwk.