How much did you spend on your PPL?

FBO: Gryphon Aviation
Amount "Quoted" (if any): Approx $2300
Amount paid: Approx $2000
Time period: 1988
How was your overall experience?: Great! :)

Bob -- Doug! Damn glad to meet ya!
 
FBO: Orlando Flight Training
Amount "Quoted": $7500
Amount paid: $7300
Time period: 2 1/2 months
How was your overall experience? Great with the CFI I had (very honest, refused to milk me for time) however the FBO itself is shady and I wouldn't recommend it.
 
Dugie8 said:
FBO: UND
Amount "Quoted" 5500
Amount paid: $~5000
Time period: 4 Months
How was your overall experience? Great. My ppl instructor are great friends to this day (and golly gee whiz, he wasn't a master CFI or even a gold seal CFI)
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i didn't make friends with any of my instructors, i had some really good ones, but once they left for the airlines i lost contact. Chris Florin was the best one i had, very knowledgible.

my PPL and my 221 instructor were pretty crappy IMHO, didn't care at all just wanted that airline gig
 
Academy: Airman Flight School, Norman, OK (Went out of business in 2005)
Amount "Quoted" (if any): $5,000
Amount paid: $5,000
Time period: Early 2001. 2 months. I was flying 6 days a week.
How was your overall experience?: Excellent. Great instructors who loved to fly. The airplanes were old but well maintained.
 
BuickCFI said:
i didn't make friends with any of my instructors, i had some really good ones, but once they left for the airlines i lost contact. Chris Florin was the best one i had, very knowledgible.

my PPL and my 221 instructor were pretty crappy IMHO, didn't care at all just wanted that airline gig
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Chris Florin was/is good people.
 
Well, not sure about 1967, but in 1976-77 it cost me about $600 in SoCal. I had about 60 hours when I took by checkride, as I had completed most of my training about 6 months before I was 17, so had to keep flying enough to not "lose" it.

C-150 was around $9/hr and a CFI was about $10, as I recall. I had about 30 hours solo of that time, and part was paid by a program in my high school.
 
FBO: University of Dubuque
Amount "Quoted" (if any): $3600
Amount paid: Around $5000
Time period: 10 months
How was your overall experience?: Great after I quit college football!
 
FBO: Wallace State University/Blue Diamond Aviation..
Amount "Quoted" (if any): Eh, I dunno..
Amount paid: About $6K..
Time period: Oh boy. Let's see..My dad was my "real" instructor, but he was not a civvy instructor, so I had to sit with another guy for the 20 hours.. I solo'd in '99.. Hated the school. Didn't fly much for a year.. Found a rockin' old dude to play instructor.. Finally got serious and finished up in Nov 03..
How was your overall experience?: First school sucked.. Second mom and pop shop rocked...
 
FBO: Flight Academy of New Orleans
Amount "Quoted": $6500
Amount paid: $7000 (includes headsets, books, flight charts/books, etc...)
Time period: 3 months / 36.8 hours
How was your overall experience: excellent
 
FBO: Private instructor, mechanic-owned aircraft.
Amount "Quoted" (if any): n/a
Amount paid: 3500. (1988)
Time period: 6 months.
How was your overall experience?: Great!
 
FBO: M&M Aviation / became S&S Aviation out of KFDW
Amount "Quoted" (if any): No number was quoted
Amount paid: $4910.50 (flight and instructor costs only) / $90 written / $80 1st class Medical / $250 headset / $30 various books for test prep and practical. $5360.50.


Time period: First flight for training was 6/23/06 - Checkride 4/5/07
How was your overall experience?: Overall experience was great. I was busy working a full time job, and a part time job, and going to school part time - and I was able to complete my PPL-ASEL in just under 50 hours (49.1TT at the end of the checkride).
 
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