Any private pilots out there?
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Any private pilots out there?
I was wondering if anyone in the Austin area was a private pilot? If so, which flight school do you use and why? Or anyone interested in becoming a private pilot?
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Yeah I'm wanting to get mine some day soon. Guess I'm just waiting for the courage to pony up the cash for it. You just doing it for recreation or do you have future career plans with it?
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-I dont know a thing about the Tx flight schools, but I can tell you that picking ''the right school'' can make all the difference.
Go do an into flight with a few if not all the schools in your area. (Remember to log that time as ''dual training'' in your new logbook!) Dont pick the school because of its training fleet. Old looking aircraft/Newer looking ones do not reflect the quality of (or lack there of) the training.
-Look at your potential instructors, are they young guys with 300TT whom are looking to move up the ladder while leaving you behind? Or are they older guys, (some may even be ex airline/military) who teach flying because they have a passion for teaching and sharing their love of flight?
In general there are two types of schools to do your PPL.
1)The career minded, ''in the door, heres what you need, and out the door you go'' type of school.
-Not a bad place if you dont mind being a number, and dont want all the ''walla walla'' social aspect that grass roots flying can offer.
2)The mom and pop/flying club type school, where you get to know everyone's name, and where they generally have a more ''one on one'' low stress type enviroment.
I'm personally and always have been a big fan of the latter example. There's something special about going out to the local flying club, -there's always somebody cooking something on the bbq, -where you can go hang out in the mecanic's hanger (usually filled to capacity with other pilots and student pilots re counting exagerated eppic flight stories...you know the kind ''Well and this one time, Merv saw those power lines and I was like Whoo!'')
And where there's always someone with a couple of cold ones in a cooler waiting for you to get back from your flight to give you a friendly drink....
Good luck with your PPL
Cessna
Go do an into flight with a few if not all the schools in your area. (Remember to log that time as ''dual training'' in your new logbook!) Dont pick the school because of its training fleet. Old looking aircraft/Newer looking ones do not reflect the quality of (or lack there of) the training.
-Look at your potential instructors, are they young guys with 300TT whom are looking to move up the ladder while leaving you behind? Or are they older guys, (some may even be ex airline/military) who teach flying because they have a passion for teaching and sharing their love of flight?
In general there are two types of schools to do your PPL.
1)The career minded, ''in the door, heres what you need, and out the door you go'' type of school.
-Not a bad place if you dont mind being a number, and dont want all the ''walla walla'' social aspect that grass roots flying can offer.
2)The mom and pop/flying club type school, where you get to know everyone's name, and where they generally have a more ''one on one'' low stress type enviroment.
I'm personally and always have been a big fan of the latter example. There's something special about going out to the local flying club, -there's always somebody cooking something on the bbq, -where you can go hang out in the mecanic's hanger (usually filled to capacity with other pilots and student pilots re counting exagerated eppic flight stories...you know the kind ''Well and this one time, Merv saw those power lines and I was like Whoo!'')
And where there's always someone with a couple of cold ones in a cooler waiting for you to get back from your flight to give you a friendly drink....
Good luck with your PPL
Cessna
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I dont know i might get my helo one also just for grins...but i know because im going in to real estate it would be nice to able to go get big clients and show them what they are going to buy from why up hi
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Yeah I'm wanting to get mine some day soon. Guess I'm just waiting for the courage to pony up the cash for it. You just doing it for recreation or do you have future career plans with it?
Hopefully after i get my college degree i will be moving forward to getting my private/airline license, after that looking for a job at a regional airport where i can start building time for a major airliner...hopefully Turkish Airlines.
The ATP school i want go attend is going to cost around $65,000 to were i can have everything i need to start at a regional.
The ATP school i want go attend is going to cost around $65,000 to were i can have everything i need to start at a regional.
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Originally Posted by cessna
-I dont know a thing about the Tx flight schools, but I can tell you that picking ''the right school'' can make all the difference.
Go do an into flight with a few if not all the schools in your area. (Remember to log that time as ''dual training'' in your new logbook!) Dont pick the school because of its training fleet. Old looking aircraft/Newer looking ones do not reflect the quality of (or lack there of) the training.
-Look at your potential instructors, are they young guys with 300TT whom are looking to move up the ladder while leaving you behind? Or are they older guys, (some may even be ex airline/military) who teach flying because they have a passion for teaching and sharing their love of flight?
In general there are two types of schools to do your PPL.
1)The career minded, ''in the door, heres what you need, and out the door you go'' type of school.
-Not a bad place if you dont mind being a number, and dont want all the ''walla walla'' social aspect that grass roots flying can offer.
2)The mom and pop/flying club type school, where you get to know everyone's name, and where they generally have a more ''one on one'' low stress type enviroment.
I'm personally and always have been a big fan of the latter example. There's something special about going out to the local flying club, -there's always somebody cooking something on the bbq, -where you can go hang out in the mecanic's hanger (usually filled to capacity with other pilots and student pilots re counting exagerated eppic flight stories...you know the kind ''Well and this one time, Merv saw those power lines and I was like Whoo!'')
And where there's always someone with a couple of cold ones in a cooler waiting for you to get back from your flight to give you a friendly drink....
Good luck with your PPL
Cessna
Go do an into flight with a few if not all the schools in your area. (Remember to log that time as ''dual training'' in your new logbook!) Dont pick the school because of its training fleet. Old looking aircraft/Newer looking ones do not reflect the quality of (or lack there of) the training.
-Look at your potential instructors, are they young guys with 300TT whom are looking to move up the ladder while leaving you behind? Or are they older guys, (some may even be ex airline/military) who teach flying because they have a passion for teaching and sharing their love of flight?
In general there are two types of schools to do your PPL.
1)The career minded, ''in the door, heres what you need, and out the door you go'' type of school.
-Not a bad place if you dont mind being a number, and dont want all the ''walla walla'' social aspect that grass roots flying can offer.
2)The mom and pop/flying club type school, where you get to know everyone's name, and where they generally have a more ''one on one'' low stress type enviroment.
I'm personally and always have been a big fan of the latter example. There's something special about going out to the local flying club, -there's always somebody cooking something on the bbq, -where you can go hang out in the mecanic's hanger (usually filled to capacity with other pilots and student pilots re counting exagerated eppic flight stories...you know the kind ''Well and this one time, Merv saw those power lines and I was like Whoo!'')
And where there's always someone with a couple of cold ones in a cooler waiting for you to get back from your flight to give you a friendly drink....
Good luck with your PPL
Cessna
I have to agree here...but you need to make sure the mom and pop places are keeping up with the aircraft maintenance and you can also ask you local fisdo (faa) about a schools history or hopefully lack there of.
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