So, how many hours did it take you to do you PPL?

Doug Taylor said:
I did my 40th hour the day before my checkride...

BUT!

I was in high school with sharp study skills.

I flew three times per week and had no other distractions.

I lived at home, so I didn't have to worry about food and housing.

A Tomahawk was $38/hr.

I trained at a small airport when I was always the only one in the traffic pattern except on the weekends when the crop dusters would fly in for maintenance.
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Hmmm, it cost about as much to rent an airplane back in your day as a simulator with instructor costs now...
 
socalef9 said:
so your checkride was an hour cause i thought the minimum hours needed were 40 before the checkride.
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It's true, the flight portion of the checkride was only 1 hour.
Also, if it's done part 141 only 35 hours required like others have said. I did mine part 61 though, so 40 was needed.
 
Well it took me 72 hours to get mine...in congested NY airspace, flying twice a week in Piper Warrior III's from fall to spring. I enjoyed every bit of it. :)
 
35.5 at Mazzei in just a shade under 2 weeks from start to checkride. For the whole enchilada at Mazzei from PVT thru Comm started in August 9th finished Comm checkride on Dec 12th. Fly twice a day a take your tests ahead of time and study/read. You won't have much of a life though.

Again this was done quite some time ago, remember to sit down with your instructor and let him/her know what your goals are and what time frame you want to work in.

Tell 'em Joe H sent ya!
 
44 hours part 141 flying in Class B airspace and out of Addison which is one of, if not, the busiest one runway airports in the U.S (spent quite a bit of time waiting for other planes). Also, includes a 2 hour cross country to pick up a new plane as well as transition training from a typical Cessna 172 to a G1000.

If you are prepared and dedicated enough, anyone should be able to get their private certificate within 35-50 hours.
 
I just wanted to comment on California Aviation Services. If you are talking about the one at Riverside Muni. make sure to visit them beforehand, and check out your other options everywhere. I went there and met alot of the people, and got a bad vibe in general from everyone I talked to. Facility didn't impress me much either. Maybe it was just me, or that I just went there on a bad day. I took a trip out to Palm Springs the next day to visit a school there, and was blown away by the way things are run there. Brand new planes, nicest staff. Even took me up for a free 30 min with an instructor to give me a feel for how they do things. Anyways, happy flying!
 
frog_flyer said:
showoff!

what's the rule on rotary conversion?
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It's simple... you need a total of 40 hours (part 61) for a PPL, but only 30 of that needs to be in airplanes. So it was really just an add-on to my commercial ticket.
 
45 hours, over nine months
first 10 hours trying not to puke, a couple of times a month break or more. Probably should of failed my checkride but the DE said give me a good short field landing and I'll pass you, I did. Felt like our ground roll was about 10 feet (exaggerating but that's what if felt like) best landing I ever did.
 
For me it was around 55. I was a little shocked when I came to CWU though. I met 2 guys one guy who did his training in his parents own plane and an asian kid through CWU. The first guy took 50 hours to solo and took him 100 to get his PPL. On a sidenote it also took him another 100 hours to get his instrument. The asian kid took 120 hours to get his private. That is a lot of money to invest I would be so ticked if I had to spend that much time on one license that's gotta really make a lotta kids feel discouraged if it takes them that long my parents sure as hell would stop paying for my flying education in a heartbeat if I was taking that long...robair273 I don't even want to think about what you went through.
 
It was a piece of cake. I thought that was pretty fast. I can't imagine getting it with less than 200 hours.
 
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