| RMB | SGD | USD | ||
| Initial Membership Fe | $3,800 | $1,556 | $1,184 | |
| First Year Subscription | $1,200 | $491 | $374 | |
| Ground School | $2,950 | $1,208 | $919 | |
| Flight Training Kit | $1,100 | $450 | $343 | |
| DCA Exam / Flight Te | $1,390 | $569 | $433 | |
| Flight Training (40 ho | $28,470 | $11,659 | $8,868 | |
| TOTAL | $38,910 | $15,935 | $12,120 |
About a 1 hour drive from Singapore is Senai International Airport. This is the nearest airport to Singapore accessible by road and is a popular alternative to learning to fly in Singapore due to a much lower cost.
The most active flight school at Senai is FRAS Flying Club. It is run by a husband & wife team Captain Singh and his wife Julie. They are passionate about aviation and appear to run a professional operation. I visited their club house and met several enthusiastic pilots and students.
I saw their two AT4 LSA's and an older Piper PA28. I went on a trial flight in an AT4 with one of their instructors. It was different flying out of such a big airport as there were Air Asia A330's doing circuit practice and go arounds. So at that time getting a slot to land and take off took a while.
My key concern in terms of the flight school was the inability to pick an instructor. Their method is that during any given lesson you will be allocated any of their CFI's. I am sure this has its benefits but my goal was to find a CFI that would take me all the way through the course.
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Looks like you had fun flying around Gunung Pulai. The three training areas are in the South, West and North of the "mountain".
ReplyDeleteBTW: I am sure with a bit of planning, it would be possible to do the training with one instructor. But even if you cannot do all flights with the same instructor, I personally found it very beneficial to fly with different instructors. They can all teach you something new about flying, and you will be a better pilot for it.
Hi I am interested in ppl training.
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