Best pilot shop?

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BCTAv8r

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What is the best pilot shop? I need to buy a logbook and soon will have to buy supplies for flying lessons and I want to get a good price on it. What do you guys recommend?
 
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What is the best pilot shop? I need to buy a logbook and soon will have to buy supplies for flying lessons and I want to get a good price on it. What do you guys recommend?

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If you don't mind the drive (or flight), go to Air Orlando's at ORL - its the biggest I've ever laid eyes on.

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www.ebay.com


or www.spinnerspilotshop.com (better prices than sportys and fast shipping too)

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That's what I was kind of looking for. Ebay is good for books and training material. I doubt I can find a good logbook in there though. I don't plan on driving anywhere, just buying everything online. Thanks for the website!
 
Don't forget abou Marv Golden's. I've gotten a lot of stuff from them, too. Good prices and fast shipping.
 
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www.ebay.com

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That's what I was kind of looking for. Ebay is good for books and training material. I doubt I can find a good logbook in there though...

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eBay Pilot Logbook Search

They are there to be found. I bought my Jepp Pro Logbook book at a significant discount there.

Bob
 
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Don't forget abou Marv Golden's. I've gotten a lot of stuff from them, too. Good prices and fast shipping.

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Marv Golden has great pricing and their customer service is top notch too. I emailed them some detailed questions about one of their transceivers and I got a detailed reply the next day. I use them as my online pilot shop of choice.
 
Support your local FBO whenever possible. They need to stay in business and make a profit some how, and every time you put a few dollars in their pockets with pilot supply purchases, you reduce the need for them to raise fuel prices or aircraft rental rates.
 
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The Local One!!

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Support your local pilot shop if at all possible.

I will pay a little bit extra for the ability to try stuff out instead of ordering from a website of catalog.
 
Downside is in MEM, the local pilot shop only had charts, PTS and MAYBE the Airplane Flying Handbook. That, and it was all locked in a case that it took 10 minutes to find someone to unlock so you could actually buy stuff. That kinda turned me off right there. In Orlando, I had no problem since Air Orlando's got the largest pilot shop I've ever seen. I even ordered some stuff from them over the phone (my headset and another flight bag) while I was in Memphis. If you have a good local pilot shop, I agree, support them. That being said, if you can save $50 on a headset, money is money. If it's a matter of like $10-15, then buy local.
 
In my humble opinion, I wouldn't purchase a logbook online unless you knew exactly what you were looking for.

They're not expensive and it's something you're going to be stuck with for the rest of your career.

Hop on the bike, ride down to the local airport and take a first-hand look-see a the logbooks. Pick out a couple that you're interested in and ask the clerk about it. There are logbooks that my students thought would be 'cool' to have, but I was able to dissuade them because it wasn't 'realistically practical'.

You never know who you'll run into on a sunny day at the airport.

Well, that's just my own $.02
 
Listen to Doug. I pretty much bought the first logbook I saw since I was wrapped up in the excitement. BAD idea. I outgrew it fairly quickly. It's not really a good feeling to realize at under 200 hours that your logbook sucks. The next logbook, I spent about 15 minutes in the pilot shop flipping through logbooks until I found the one I liked.
 
Well, a lot of my students wanted the biggest and the baddest logbook -- the giant Jeppesen master log. Then I told them that they're going to be carrying around a 2x4 in their flight kits until they're professional pilots and nothing says "Aero Princess" more than a huge logbook with 400 hours in it!
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I wound up getting the Jepp pro logbook. I wanted something that would grow with me, and that was about as close as I could get. That cheap-o ASA one I had didn't have NEAR enough columns in it, so 8710 forms took about 2 hours to fill out.
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In my humble opinion, I wouldn't purchase a logbook online unless you knew exactly what you were looking for.

They're not expensive and it's something you're going to be stuck with for the rest of your career.

Hop on the bike, ride down to the local airport and take a first-hand look-see a the logbooks. Pick out a couple that you're interested in and ask the clerk about it. There are logbooks that my students thought would be 'cool' to have, but I was able to dissuade them because it wasn't 'realistically practical'.

You never know who you'll run into on a sunny day at the airport.

Well, that's just my own $.02

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Believe it or not, my airport doesn't sell logbooks. I tried buying one for my discovery flight but couldn't find one. I wish I could use my new jeppesen leather cover logbook, but the guy who sold it to me put his name and address in the pilot info page which means I can't use it.
 
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Got some white out?
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I don't think it would be that big a deal as long as it was on the info page.

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Well I can always transfer my hours into a better looking logbook when I'm ready to get a job, right?
 
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