Learning to Fly - Tailwheels Etc. Florida

I arrived in Orlando on Friday the 13th Jan to start flight training for my private pilot license. The flight school I am training at is called Tailwheels Etc.

The schools at Winter Haven, about a 50 minute drive from Orlando.  You can rent a houses along the lake front within walking distance to the airport.

My house is called, 'Piper House.'

How Much Does it Cost to Learn to Fly in Johor Baru (JB) Malaysia? (FRAS Flying Club)

	RMB	SGD	USD
Initial Membership Fee	$3,800	$1,556	$1,184
First Year Subscriptionn	$1,200	$491	$374
Ground School	$2,950	$1,208	$919
Flight Training Kit	$1,100	$450	$343
DCA Exam / Flight Test	$1,390	$569	$433
Flight Training (40 hours)	$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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