How long to fly my own Cessna 172?
October 12, 2008
List me the licenses, costs of lessons, ground school, etc, and about how much time it would take.
I'm 14 and would like to start ground school in about 2 years.
My eyesight isn't very good, but I can get contacts or glasses for when flying.
I want to know the costs of all these, plus a new Cessna 172 Skyhawk.
All of this will happen in Southern California.
SoCal has about a million different flight schools so getting you'll have the ability to shop around.
You'll first gain your Private – $6-10K 45-80 hours depending on how much you fly and how fast you learn.
You can move on from there but that is all you need to fly a 172 without an instructor.
When you're talking about plane ownership, however, it's one thing to have the money to buy a plane, it's another to have the money to insure and maintain your plane.
Depending on how much you fly, you can figure on another $8-9K USD to maintain, and with almost no flying time, you don't even want to know how much the insurance will be.
This is exactly why many young people like yourself, bust their hump to get their private, instrument, commercial and instructor so they can teach to build hours. This route isn't cheep either, you'll rack up a solid collection of student loan bills, but in the long run it will be actually cheaper than ownership. Check out AOPA's website below:
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A new Skyhawk! Expensive. +$225,000 USD.
Concentrate on your schooling…and then after you are certified, find the plane that you can really afford.
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Well to get your Private License, which is the first one, could spend from $4000 up to $10,000 depending on where you go, how fast of a learner you are, how often you can fly, etc. Same goes with the time to get the license. You could do it in as little as 2 or 3 weeks if you really wanted to cram it into that kinda space. But normally it takes 6 months to a year maybe longer. Just depends on how fast you learn and how often you fly.
Now if you want to add a new Cessna 172 you are looking at about $180,000. Maybe a little less for an earlier model and standard features.
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You need to have VERY good eye site better find another job m8
ATC in is better!
Tom
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To get your Private Pilots license you should look to spend between 5800.00 and 7800.00, you are required to have at least 40 hours of flight as well as ground instruction, but most take longer the 40 required hours. You can start taking lessons and ground school now if you are truly interested in flying, although you can not solo an aircraft until you are 16 and can not get your rating until you are 17. I would suggest that at this stage you find a local flight school and speak with an instructor about the process to get your rating. You can find a local flight school at http://www.beapilot.com/
As far as the price for a new Cessna 172 Skyhawk you are looking to spend over 220,000.00. Most people for their first aircraft purchase a used aircraft rather then new and you can find those at http://www.controller.com/ or http://www.aso.com/
Hope all of this information helps and good luck!
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http://www.jets.com/private_jets.aspx
http://www.legfind.com/
SoCal has about a million different flight schools so getting you'll have the ability to shop around.
You'll first gain your Private – $6-10K 45-80 hours depending on how much you fly and how fast you learn.
You can move on from there but that is all you need to fly a 172 without an instructor.
When you're talking about plane ownership, however, it's one thing to have the money to buy a plane, it's another to have the money to insure and maintain your plane.
Depending on how much you fly, you can figure on another $8-9K USD to maintain, and with almost no flying time, you don't even want to know how much the insurance will be.
This is exactly why many young people like yourself, bust their hump to get their private, instrument, commercial and instructor so they can teach to build hours. This route isn't cheep either, you'll rack up a solid collection of student loan bills, but in the long run it will be actually cheaper than ownership. Check out AOPA's website below:
References :
http://www.aopa.org/info/certified/buying_guide/main.html