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[mistahimaskwa]

I'm planning to move to australia in a couple of years (after high school) and start flight school there. I also plan to do an intro flight while I'm still in canada ($90 for 15 min )

Edited by mistahimaskwa, 30 June 2005 - 11:51 AM.

[Windowseat]

Chief Wiggum, on Jun 30 2005, 11:44 AM, said:

We need to be 17 to even start flying lessons here

we don't have any WTC to crash into tho

[b757]

I hope to make into the aviation business someday. I am probably heading into the airforce for training. I want to eventually fly the 757.

[Dr_Evil]

I did my ppl when I was 17. I did it through the Air Training Corps who paid for the first 28 flight hours and then my dad and I paid for the rest.

Meant to go into the RAF but it didn't happen. (Didn't get interviewd by a relative like the guy who did get in instead of me).

Not that I mind so much these days. I taken contols of Dominie, Jetstream and sat on the flight deck of a 767 and 737 in the days before they locked the pilots in and put men with guns on planes (scary)

I also got to sit in the cockpit and navigator seats of a Tornado (it was on the ground obviously). That plane is currently rusting in pieces in the Iraq desert (it was shot down on the first gulf war)

So I reckon I got a fairly good set of life experiences behind me. I now fly DC3s for a virtual airline and that's enough to keep me happy. All I want now is to fly in one for real....if the pilots can stop crashing the few that are left on Florida streets

[Cheech]

mistahimaskwa, on Jun 30 2005, 11:48 AM, said:

I'm planning to move to australia in a couple of years (after high school) and start flight school there. I also plan to do an intro flight while I'm still in canada ($90 for 15 min )

Are you kidding me? That much for an intro flight? I hope your not talking about Canada when you say that. What airport charges that much? Go to Okotoks (near calgary) and you can fly over Downtown Calgary and back to okotoks for $28 (sometimes goes up to $40). At the Calgary Flight Center in CYYC it's $40-70 depending on the weatherand the mood that the pilots are in   .

[dolbinau]

Mistahimaskwa, Is our flight school's really that cheap? Maybe if you were moving from the Pound, which one of our members have actually done, moved from england and now reside in Flight Training Aus, Brisbane, Archerfield Airprot , I'm not sure of the exchange rate, but I find Flying Lessons very expensive.

[sexymacowner]

Yea iam going to be a pilot. MY parents aren't paying for anything iam going to the airforce.  

[PHNL747]

rollonu, on Jun 30 2005, 04:32 AM, said:

coz i have weak sight(bad english i know), i wear glasses  

cant you just get Contacts?

[flightsimmaster91]

My neighbor wears glasses(and so do I)and hes a 747-400 pilot for United.  He flys to Hong Kong, then to Singapore, then back to Hong Kong then Chicago.  But he does speak good English.

[flightsimmaster91]

flightsimmaster91, on Jun 30 2005, 07:17 PM, said:

My neighbor wears glasses(and so do I)and hes a 747-400 pilot for United.  He flys to Hong Kong, then to Singapore, then back to Hong Kong then Chicago.  But he does speak good English.

I might become a pilot, or either own the four carstores my dad owns now, but for now I take lessons at DPA, and if I want to continue flying, I'll try to get into UOU.

[mistahimaskwa]

I did a bit searching and found this flight school at Toronto City Center. PPL training costs about $7855. Flying solo is $106/h and dual is $161

[dolbinau]

Thats very good actually It costs near $10,000 AUD to get a PPL!  Approx. $140 AUD for a C152/hour ($236 dual)

(9,318.07 CAD)  I'm not sure about the others converted, xe.com

[mistahimaskwa]

hmm..then I guess it's not that bad here

I wonder where the cheapest place for flight school is

Edited by mistahimaskwa, 30 June 2005 - 08:28 PM.

[mistahimaskwa]

the programs look pretty good
thanks, johnfromoz

[Jorge]

dolbinau, on Jun 30 2005, 08:20 PM, said:

Thats very good actually It costs near $10,000 AUD to get a PPL!  Approx. $140 AUD for a C152/hour ($236 dual)

(9,318.07 CAD)  I'm not sure about the others converted, xe.com

OH MY GOD     is that expensive? Then i might have to go Military Air Academy. Is too expencive . I don't know what im going to do then.

[Derek]

Here in the flatlands of Saskatchewan the PPL can start at:

Total Minimum License Cost (Before Taxes).... $6,487.00

[SAS Soldier]

hey VA101 lol im going to Liverpool at the end of July, thats where my whole family lives, but me, ma, pa and bro live in canada.

[Lord Flashheart]

My flying lessons are £115.00 per hour

Does anyone know somewhere in the UK or around Europe that does them cheaper?

[dolbinau]

^ !

Is that in a C152?

No wonder the English person I was talking about earlier moved to Brisbane to do Flight Training!  

It can be as low as 55 pounds per lesson.