Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Agreed - but I am amazed at the prices I see on this forum. Someone in this thread listed ~$250/hr for a Seminole. I paid $110/hr for a Seneca II to train for my ME rating and that was the most expensive trainer on the airfield (there were only two ME trainers I think and the other one was a Duchess and less costly).
I think I paid $35/hr (wet) for the C-152 and $62/hr for the Arrow that I enjoyed flying. Of course the minimum wage I was making was $3.25/hr too
USMCFLYR
Arrows are going for about 110-130/hr, depending on where you are and the avionics, of course. And as mentioned before, twins are well over 200/hr, which is just sickening. If you really want to kick yourself in the butt, talk to some of the older guys that hang out at the local fields, they'll tell you that they picked up their ppl back in the day for less than $1000. If you do that math on an avg. inflation rate of about 4% over the past 40-50 years, it turns out that flight training costs is WAAAY above that. Oh well, have to enjoy life.