gatt wrote:
Hey, all. For purposes of ballparking my budget next year, I'm wondering
what it costs Joe Average Pilot, CP-ASEL-IA to get his CFI these days.

Any new CFIs care to discuss? Thanks!

-Chris
PP-ASEL-IA, completing Commercial in August.




Depends. If you already have a commercial, it's not THAT expensive. I
paid around $1200 for ground instruction and flight time. Then again, I
did my commercial in the right seat, which saved a lot of time learning
maneuvers. In other words, I didn't need to learn how to fly, I just
needed to learn how to teach. I suspect my CFI undercharged me on
ground instruction, because he learned a lot from me about the
maintenance side of things and our lessons were usually fairly long.

Course, this was five years ago. Not sure how prices would compare now.