listed below will be my flight hours and costs at dca so far. I am currently a little more than halfway thru my commercial rating. I started 0 time on January 28th 2005 and have never flown outside of the academy. I have taken two 5 day vacations during the nearly 7 months that I have been here. this is something I wish more people would do about each school so that prospective students can have an idea of the exact costs and hours as opposed to projected costs and hours.
total time: 134.0 Airplane SEL: 134.0 complex: 0 Multi: 0
landings: 194d 35n night: 19.7 actual IMC: 7.7 simulated/hood: 38.9 approaches: 41 FTD/simulator: 21.7
PCATD: 13.3 Xcountry: 37.5 Solo: 16.5 PIC: 93 Dual: 117.5
money:
charged to my student account which is only for airplane and instructor costs and written exams: $35563.46
books, uniforms, materials, and headset charged to my credit cards total: $1966.37
grand total $37529.83
I spent just under $300 on a telex headset and it has served me well. I spent about $900 the first week on books and uniforms at school and then more to get a flight bag and other odds and ends that i needed like a knee board and such.
my private training without books and materials cost $11174.10 and i finished it with 46.6 hours total time and 5.6 hours of solo time. I failed only one lesson out of 26 that caused me to fly an extra 1.5 hours to redo the lesson so you could potentially finish the rating a little faster. one of my friends finished in 43.0 and everyone ive met is somewhere around 45
my instrument training again without books was $16330.84
I had 51.7 hours for this and 17.8 in the sim and 10 in the pcatd. i failed 3 lessons in this out of 32 which caused an extra 2.5 hours of flying.
the estimated costs and times i got from delta when i came in were
private: 7 weeks $9550.00
instrument: 8 weeks $14144.00
commercial: 10 weeks $11828.00
com multi: 5 weeks $8797.00
cfi: 8 weeks $8273.00
cfii: $4052.00
total: $52592.00
MEI only after youre an instructor: $5330.00
so far i have been here 31 weeks minus 2 for vacation so 29 weeks so by their estimates i should be finishing my commercial multi not in the middle of my commercial single. most of the guys that started 0 time with me are within two weeks either ahead or behind me. costwise i am already beyond what they advertise it takes for private -commercial.
I was 17% above cost on private not including books and materials and 15% above on instrument. taking into account books and materials then i am 26% and 25% above their projected costs. I dont have too much more in materials to buy maybe $300 worth of books charts and plates. from talking to people at school im in the middle of everyone. people have spent less and people have spent more. I just want everyone to have an idea of what it might take to go thru this program. at the rate i am going i will finish with a little over 210 hours and have spent about 68500 and then i will have to do my MEI for 5330 more as an instructor which makes the total cost $73830. this is acually about what one admissions officer told me it would cost. he told me "add 15% to their estimates and that is what most people spend"
well I am sorry about the really long post but I hope it is helpful and enlightening to everyone out there. feel free to email me any questions or comments at hobo207@hotmail.com
total time: 134.0 Airplane SEL: 134.0 complex: 0 Multi: 0
landings: 194d 35n night: 19.7 actual IMC: 7.7 simulated/hood: 38.9 approaches: 41 FTD/simulator: 21.7
PCATD: 13.3 Xcountry: 37.5 Solo: 16.5 PIC: 93 Dual: 117.5
money:
charged to my student account which is only for airplane and instructor costs and written exams: $35563.46
books, uniforms, materials, and headset charged to my credit cards total: $1966.37
grand total $37529.83
I spent just under $300 on a telex headset and it has served me well. I spent about $900 the first week on books and uniforms at school and then more to get a flight bag and other odds and ends that i needed like a knee board and such.
my private training without books and materials cost $11174.10 and i finished it with 46.6 hours total time and 5.6 hours of solo time. I failed only one lesson out of 26 that caused me to fly an extra 1.5 hours to redo the lesson so you could potentially finish the rating a little faster. one of my friends finished in 43.0 and everyone ive met is somewhere around 45
my instrument training again without books was $16330.84
I had 51.7 hours for this and 17.8 in the sim and 10 in the pcatd. i failed 3 lessons in this out of 32 which caused an extra 2.5 hours of flying.
the estimated costs and times i got from delta when i came in were
private: 7 weeks $9550.00
instrument: 8 weeks $14144.00
commercial: 10 weeks $11828.00
com multi: 5 weeks $8797.00
cfi: 8 weeks $8273.00
cfii: $4052.00
total: $52592.00
MEI only after youre an instructor: $5330.00
so far i have been here 31 weeks minus 2 for vacation so 29 weeks so by their estimates i should be finishing my commercial multi not in the middle of my commercial single. most of the guys that started 0 time with me are within two weeks either ahead or behind me. costwise i am already beyond what they advertise it takes for private -commercial.
I was 17% above cost on private not including books and materials and 15% above on instrument. taking into account books and materials then i am 26% and 25% above their projected costs. I dont have too much more in materials to buy maybe $300 worth of books charts and plates. from talking to people at school im in the middle of everyone. people have spent less and people have spent more. I just want everyone to have an idea of what it might take to go thru this program. at the rate i am going i will finish with a little over 210 hours and have spent about 68500 and then i will have to do my MEI for 5330 more as an instructor which makes the total cost $73830. this is acually about what one admissions officer told me it would cost. he told me "add 15% to their estimates and that is what most people spend"
well I am sorry about the really long post but I hope it is helpful and enlightening to everyone out there. feel free to email me any questions or comments at hobo207@hotmail.com
