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05-09-2013, 03:50 PM
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Biggest one is lack of money. If you cannot afford to fly at least once or twice a week when starting out you will take longer. Second is lack of aptitude. The military weeds out week brothers and sisters. There is no such thing when you go for a ppl. I have soloed 16 year olds within 6 or 7 hours and adults with more than 25 hours that never soloed. Most fulltime students make it within 60 hours. In the usa I would expect to pay around 13k at the moment. Save up, find a cfi that fits your schedule, get your written out of the way and do the flight traning in about 6 weeks, weather permitting. This way everything stays fresh and the chance of losing an intructor is minimal. I had 3 different cfi's before I soloed, no fun when starting out. Enjoy!
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05-09-2013, 04:08 PM
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Yeah I used to be an instructor for the RAF flying scholarships, it was a total joy taking these fresh faced information sponges, they had to do an abridged syllabus of 30 hours and were expected to solo within 15 hours, most of them made it under 10.
It's frustrating to say it being an instructor (luckily it's a moonlighting job for me) but if you think money is going to be an issue then then is not for you, but as someone else mentioned there is always the sport pilot licence route, it's a bit limiting but it gets you into the air.
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