Thinking about starting my PPL. I am active duty military at the present time. I talked to an instructor at a small FOB by our base. He told me 40 hours is usually the norm but told me it'll take probably 70 hours to get my PPL. He is gonna charge me $60 for plane rental and $30 for intruction/hour. Is this a good deal? He told me to invest in a PPL package (CD's) or different other kinds of kits for my training and for the written and oral test. Is he correct? Thanks for the advice/recommendations.