How's Business in Flight Training?

Greg Esres wrote in message . ..
The flight school located at the Syracuse, NY, airport is seeing its
best year in the last three years. The late model C172S's are
renting for $95/hr and each of the four aircraft are now being rented
about 8 to 10 hours per day.

Good lord, and that's New York. Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.

Yikes that as bad as the West Valley Flying Club here in the Bay Area.
I don't think there is an equivalently moneyed area in Mississippi
that could support those rates.

Peter R. wrote:

(Sorry, just joking -- I grew up across the border in Kingston, Ontario.
Besides, I have to fly my family to Syracuse in August for a highland
dancing competition.)

Hey, you had better watch yourself. I know what airways you fly! ;-)

Yes, my U.S. trips sometimes take me on the SYR-ART leg, just skirting the
west side of the big Fort Drum MOA on my way home to Ottawa -- Syracuse
looks like a pretty city from 8,000 ft up, anyway.


All the best,


David

Greg Esres wrote in message . ..
The flight school located at the Syracuse, NY, airport is seeing its
best year in the last three years. The late model C172S's are
renting for $95/hr and each of the four aircraft are now being rented
about 8 to 10 hours per day.

Good lord, and that's New York. Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.

That has to include an instructor Too ????

I don't think there is an equivalently moneyed area in Mississippi
that could support those rates.

Most of the business comes from Memphis, which is just a few miles to
the North. Fedex pays for some of the flight training of its
employees, so we get a lot of that business.

But: I do think our prices are killing off the business.

That has to include an instructor Too ????

Nope.

That seems a tad high to me. Check out the prices at Central Jersey
here http://www.centraljerseyairport.com/aircraft.html
A 152 is $63.00.

I've been gathering prices from the internet. C152's range from $50 -
$65, normally. A C172N should rent in the $75 range, like yours does.
An Arrow, $95 to 100.

Thanks for the link.

Curious to know how busy flight schools are now that summer has
arrived. Ours sucks, but I'm not sure if it's the economy or our
extraordinarily high prices (C152, $85/hr). Normally this time of
year, the schedule is booked until 8 or 9 pm.


Locally it's not business that's the problem, but the weather. The
airport just put a "new" L-4 online, so it's back to two Cubs (and two
Cessnas) the way it was in 1999.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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In article ,
Greg Esres wrote:

...Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.




$95 an hour across the line here in Tuscaloosa.