Your airplanes are crap/great!

[Beefitarian]

I'm insane because I keep thinking your description would be a good way to run a school. Obviously the only way to run a school is price based like walmart.

[Beefitarian]

Sorry, by that I meant, "Spotless planes ready to go and not jerk the customers around."

[crazycanuck]

I remember one of the planes I rented this summer had a busted arm rest that was flopping all around. Another one had so much static in the intercom that I could barely hear the instructor. Another had so many bugs on the windshield that it actually made it difficult to see. I don’t know the typical cost structure for a flight school or how it needs to be run to make money. The liability insurance costs alone must be outrageous. I guess all that is invest financially and otherwise I just expected flight training to be a little more refined. I guess in the end they have the right to run it the way they want and we have the right to vote with our feet.

[Beefitarian]

If they can operate for $2 less per hour they'll be the busiest school in town.

[Big Pistons Forever]

If they can operate for $2 less per hour they'll be the busiest school in town.

How true. What virtually nobody realizes is that the hourly price of the aircraft has the least effect on the total cost of your license.

[akoch]

If they can operate for $2 less per hour they'll be the busiest school in town.

How true. What virtually nobody realizes is that the hourly price of the aircraft has the least effect on the total cost of your license.

But it also must be noted that the total cost of the license is often worries a student the least.

[iflyforpie]

If they can operate for $2 less per hour they'll be the busiest school in town.

How true. What virtually nobody realizes is that the hourly price of the aircraft has the least effect on the total cost of your license.

It is the conspicuous costs that we worry the most about.

Like, gas goes up 20c a litre, so lets go sell that SUV that you've just finished paying off to buy an econobox, finance it at 5-10%, lose $5 a day in depreciation costs, all so you can get 25MPG trying to make a 100HP engine perform like the 300HP one in your old vehicle that managed 20MPG if you drove it nice.....