Weather and cost
Damn, the weather is nice outside.. sunny with scattered cloud.. I want to be flying! I am hoping that I get a call from my CFI to say a slot has opened up in his schedule for this weekend. One concern I have about my chosen flying school is that they appear to have more students than the instructors can handle, which may not give me the 3 or 4 lessons a week I want. I guess if I am going to change flying schools I had better do it soon!
Another moan point, why is it so expensive to learn in the UK compared with the USA? It costs almost three times the amount! I can expect to spend around £8,500.00 pounds or approximately $15,000.00 dollars learning. If I had the time, I would consider taking an extended holiday to the USA to learn, but the time is something I can afford less than the actual money :-(.
Anyway, if anyone is reading, have a good weekend!
Another moan point, why is it so expensive to learn in the UK compared with the USA? It costs almost three times the amount! I can expect to spend around £8,500.00 pounds or approximately $15,000.00 dollars learning. If I had the time, I would consider taking an extended holiday to the USA to learn, but the time is something I can afford less than the actual money :-(.
Anyway, if anyone is reading, have a good weekend!
posted by Chris @ Saturday, June 04, 2005
1 Comments:
At Thursday, June 09, 2005 6:01:00 am,
Kris Johnson said…
You'll have to get used to being at the mercy of the weather gods. I try to get two or three lessons per week, but there have been a couple of periods when I couldn't fly for a week or two due to weather. It can be frustrating, but I've learned to accept it.
I almost had my first solo two weeks ago, but thunderstorms came in and screwed it up. Then I had two weeks of ground lessons when ceilings were too low. Luckily, things worked out today, and I finally got to solo.
FWIW, I'm expecting my training to end up costing me around $12,000. I don't know why things are more expensive in the UK, but I've heard that standards in the US are a lot easier to meet than those elsewhere.
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