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What does dual instruction cost in a Cessna 150 or a Cherokee now?

 

I’ve seen $90-115/hr.wet, instructor likely an additional $40-65. Crazy.

1984 in high school it was $29 wet and $10 for the instructor.

 

You can get your Light Sport Pilot license. Instead of 40 hours of flight training you get 20 and your license allows you to fly aircraft with only 2 seats and at airports your instructor approves.

 

That is crazy. I learned to fly in the early 60s and if I remember right C-150s were twelve bucks an hour. I think the CFI got five.
I got my private and commercial in our family's Super Cub.
The Instrument rating in those days was a seperate deal. I went modern and did it in a 172. That was expensive...17 bucks an hour and seven for the instructor. I could be wrong on those numbers but it wasn't much more than that.
Multi was in a D18 Beech. It was a family plane that worked on a nightly freight run.
My Dad and his brothers were crop dusters and fire pilots and did rebuilds in the winter so there was always something around to build time in.
LOL...I thought about the airlines but I've always worn glasses and if my pet medical examiner hadn't kept the same eye chart for twenty years I never would have passed the uncorrected vision requirement.
Besides, when you tell United or Delta that you have crop dusting time or fire bomber time they get a little fidgety. I think, even in those days, that they preferred a more stable background. Stearman time, TBM time, and C-119 time just doesn't impress those guys at all.

 

Some of you guys will appreciate this; I have been working in aviation for the last couple of years. One of our clients recently arrived in this... a work of art.

 

Staggerwing Beech. The only biplane extant today with retractable gear.
Does it have a Jacobs engine?

 

P & W

 

Thanks a bunch for re-conjuring up crazy ideas.

 

That is exactly the rating you need for the seaplane I want the Icon A-5

My best buddies sons fatherinlaw is a 40 veteran of flying float planes and is also an instructor up in Northern Michigan.

Big buck seaplane but own it for 5 years and sell it would be the plan Take a mortgage out on my house and live the dream,

 

Better check the insurance rates for low time float-plane pilots. Insurance companies have ruined more dreams...