"john smith" wrote in message
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After reading John's (BucFan) posting and the revelation that he spent
$12,500 to get his PPL, I have to wonder how representative this is?

First of all, allow me to say that I have no idea how much It cost me to
get my PPL, and I don't ever want to know. (I CAN tell you that it is nowhere
near $12,500.) Unless you are getting a license for a particular reason, the
actual price of your training is unimportant. I fly for pleasure, and to me the
major difference between being a student pilot and being a Private pilot is that
I no longer have to pay a CFI to periodically ride along with me. The CFI costs
much less than the airplane that I rent, so this is a small item in the grand
scheme of things.

Flying is flying. Except for ground school and CFI ground time, training is
flying.


It certainly is daunting, to say the least.
Is this is true, it is certainly a factor in the decline in pilot starts
and completions.

Not true. Figure something less than $150/hour for an average of about 50
hours, plus books, materials, ground school, test fees, & examiner fee. But
actually you should remove the aircraft rental figure from the above total
because "flying is flying".

Where you live:
What are the going rates for dual instruction?

Depends on the plane I select. I can have the brand new G1000 172 at one
price or the ratty old 152 for a much lesser price, or any of several planes
that are in between. I went for the ratty old 152. Now that I am a PPL, I
often still fly that ratty old 152. It grows on you.

Vaughn




What are the rates and aircraft being used for training?