What is the rental rate on a cirrus anyway?
For CFI's (rental, not proficiency), it's $140/hour, plus a current fuel surcharge of $11.12/hour. Student pay about $10/hour more.
Thanks for the advice. Yes, the rates for the cirrus are much higher than that of your typical 152, but i like the standardization at the college. Also, we have a CRJ transition course in the curriculum so that will also be an option.
I'll agree that the standardization we have is one of WMU's high points, but they do babysit students. One of the reasons I decided to go fly divers for a summer, so I could get a feeling for making my own PIC decisions.
Our JET course is very good, however.