Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Seanaldinho on March 16, 2012, 04:00:40 PM
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Took it today for the first time and got an 82 so Im now halfway to my license. :D
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Woot!!
WTG!
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Awesome Man!
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Congrats!
How much does it cost these days?
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Congrats!
How much does it cost these days?
Just shy of selling your kidney, or child.
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Took it today for the first time and got an 82 so Im now halfway to my license. :D
Ahem....... I regretfully need to let you know that you are NOT 1/2 way to your PPL... This is an Exam that will ALLOW you to take the Required FAA MINIMUM flight required hours to pass for a PPL.
This again, are the MINIMUM's required... there are NO Published MAXIMUM's ( to my knowledge)... so Good luck and keep the Round Rubber thingy's Under you when you land... it's the best way to prevent ALOT of paperwork.
:cheers:
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Congrats! You're still an overachiever ;)
Oh, Hawk:
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Just shy of selling your kidney, or child.
So bout' tree fiddy?
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That's 6 points better than I got.....WAY TO GO!!!
So bout' tree fiddy?
And that's when I realized that curry1 wasnt an angsty teenager, but a 3 story tall creature from the paleolithic era.
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Ahem....... I regretfully need to let you know that you are NOT 1/2 way to your PPL... This is an Exam that will ALLOW you to take the Required FAA MINIMUM flight required hours to pass for a PPL.
I guess that depends on when I take it. When I was getting my private I took the written right before the checkride. So in my case it was a lot closer to private than 1/2 way.
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I think the written is somewhere around $150.00 now.
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I concur, I paid $150 for all mine. But I get to shell out $650 a week from now :( .
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Is that how much the examiner charges?
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Yargh, MEI.
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For $650 I hope he atleast gives you a courtesy reach-around.
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Word, but I was assigned this DPE. Can't pick your initial CFI examiner, the FSDO does.
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Congrats!
How much does it cost these days?
Embry-Riddle payed for it. :D
150 if they hadnt paid for it though.
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I've shelled out $750 for FAA exams over the past few months, and I still have $150 to go for 1 more exam. :cry
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Embry-Riddle payed for it. :D
150 if they hadnt paid for it though.
But how much are you paying Embry Riddle?
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I know a guy who took his ATP checkride in a rented Baron a few weeks ago. They were flying for an hour and a half (Baron is $650/hr wet) plus the examiner fee. Yikes :bolt:
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But how much are you paying Embry Riddle?
Not a single penny.
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Embry-Riddle payed for it. :D
150 if they hadnt paid for it though.
In that case your scholarship paid for it, riddle would never do that for you.
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In that case your scholarship paid for it, riddle would never do that for you.
I have no scholarship. :D
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I have no scholarship. :D
Grants then?
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Grants then?
Nope. :D
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So bout' tree fiddy?
No child and I drink, so I'll sell for $3.35 and a snickers bar
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Nope. :D
Must be part of your tuition fees then. I think the current fee is stil $140 even with the AOPA discount.
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I wish they'd stop increasing it. Actually I think the whole purpose of the test is so the government can make money. You get tested on all that stuff on the checkride and the stuff they don't test for is useless anyways.
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The fees are high in part because it's a govt run low volume program that must at least try to pay for itself. Flight examiners aren't getting rich.
I'm working my way through paperwork to get my CFII (military equivalency exam and no practical, FTW!) but there isn't any realistic way that I could make a good living just as an instructor. I plan on using my CFII as a way to get other people to pay for my flight time while I'm a military UAV driver, but it sure isn't going to pay any bills. I'll actually probably lose money because I'll need to teach myself the FAA approved methods of instrument flying. The military techniques are in some cases almost exactly opposite of the FAA approved stuff, especially where it comes to control and performance and which instruments are "primary" and "secondary" during instrument flying. Military flight instruments are on average more reliable and things happen much quicker, so we focus primarily on the attitude indicator and power setting as "control" instruments, then monitor airspeed, VVI, altimeter, and hdg as "performance" indicators. The FAA does it pretty much the opposite, which is confusing to the poor old military pilot :old:
So I'll probably end up losing money as a civilian flight instructor but it will be cheaper than paying for my own hours once the military tells me to hang up my G-suit for good.
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Must be part of your tuition fees then. I think the current fee is stil $140 even with the AOPA discount.
I don't pay tuition. :)
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Eagl depending on where you live in Texas I know of a few good schools they pay fairly well to instruct at.
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Eagl depending on where you live in Texas I know of a few good schools they pay fairly well to instruct at.
I dunno where I'll be living when I'll be getting into this... I'll be in Las Vegas for the next few years, but after I retire from the military my wife gets to choose where we go. Thx for the offer though, and I might end up asking the question in a few years once I figure out where we will be living.
In the meantime I plan on just picking up a few hours a month to keep my hands "warm", maybe do some upset or basic aerobatics instruction since that is a big part of what I've been doing for the last few years.
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Update: Just passed the glider written with an 85.