Originally Posted by
motormadness
The club at Clow is actually a rip off. It's about $140 an hour for a Skyhawk. Yeah sure it equates to be like $120 an hour. However, if you only fly on weekends, the club membership will never work out. If you try and get their 152, good luck. You have to book that thing a few weeks in advance. Not to mention they have a couple people on that staff that are just downright rude. They also have an Archer, which is really probably the most disgusting cost per hour I've ever seen. It's $160 per tach hour.
Sorry but I need to disagree with you here. The 172R is $133 on the tach at 1C5, which equates to approximately 105/ hobbs hr, wet. Keep in mind, when you are in the landing pattern and on the ground, the tach is ticking VERY slowly. That being said, you save around 20%. 105/hr for a 172R is a good deal so I don't see how it would be a rip off, unless they charge and get you with the ground school charges and make you pay for 0.5 ground time for every lesson but im not sure if they do that or not.