Cost me $1000 for hotel, gas, food, training and ride. (I kept the receipts for my taxes) That was about 2 years ago now. Arrived at 4pm and left town 3pm the next day. Did 2 training flights. When you call they can set you up with a place to stay across the street from the airport. Was like $50 a night IIRC. Nice people, no surprises.
Good outfit. No crazy long run-ups, or taxiing. You take off and you're into it.
I've done multi-IFR training at 4 different flight schools. Cornwall is the fastest. They have a DFTE on staff.
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This is a great place to do your multi-ifr. The ground time is minimal due to an uncontroled aerodrome but it is a bit of a trek when you have to travel to CYOW or CYMX or CYUL to do a precision approach. Another thing that happened to me and others was the lack of coordination between the desk staff and the flight staff. If you are booked to fly in the afternoon be prepared to get bumped if the wx is bad in the morning. They seem to shuffle the "clients" back to accomodate the daily bookings. Just a warning if you are planning to fly once a day. There will soon be another school that offers this training in the Ottawa area where you dont have to pay for xcountry time just to do a precession approach. I'll keep you all updated as more becomes available.
I did my Multi-IFR in Cornwall it was excellent! I was on a fixed time sched and got it done in no time! I had my Multi when I arrived and over 5 days (two were weathered out), I finished 17 hours of flying including the ride. Flew two 8-hour days and then the next day asked Glen to come in on a Sunday (which he doesn't normally) and do my ride. It was quick and painless! Lived with a local woman just down the street and she made 3 meals a day and was excellent! The car rental was a whee bit expensive since im under 25. The rest was excellent! The instructors were dedicated to me alone and I pretty much had a plane all day for as much flying as I wanted. The experience of flying into Montreal and Ottawa was excellent, plus the RNAV approach into Cornwall. You do everything but NDB navigation since, one of the planes doesn't have an ADF in it. I would go there for my renewal if I ever need it. Moreover, the dual Garmin GPS430's make life easy! I can't recommend it enough. It’s completely worth it all! However, if you do go you will need to rent a car and drive in from either Montreal or Ottawa. The drive is 1 1/2 hour from either place. You need your INRAT completed before you arrive.
Since the airplane has Garmin's it would be a good idae to download the manual and training program from the garmin website, and go over that and the CAP GEN before arriving.
Cornwall now has VNAV installed in the Garmin 430's, which creates a glide slope for every approach. This means that you can practice prescision appraches right at Cornwall, without going to YMX or YOW. Still have to go there for the ride, and the IFR XC, but thats it. I did a few like that, if you can fly one you can fly the other.
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"Yeah. There is a problem. You...because you're dangerous. You're dangerous and foolish - and that makes you dangerous! Now, let's cut the...crap. We've got a plane to fly. Let's try to be on time, okay?"
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