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My instructor only charges Hobbs time, so all pre flight and post flight are basically free. He has been a CFI since he retired from his f/t job about 8 years ago. I’m not saying I’m getting over charged or anything, I just know it seems like I am always over the allotted time compared to the...

We fill out everything at post flight debriefing, some of the extra non flight time is me doing inspections and securing plane. I’m very slow and by the check list on this, I don’t want to miss anything

Please don’t get me wrong, I love every minute of it, but I do want to get the most out of each lesson.

I’m not sure about solo yet, I think I have 3 more lesson according to our syllabus before we prep for solo.

I am trying to do at least 2 lessons a week, but we have had crap weather and I have had to cancel at least one lesson per week. I got 2 in this week because I had 3 scheduled.

My instructor is retired, he does this because he loves to fly, he has flown for almost 50 years. He’s not trying to build time, he has plenty.

I’m not saying it’s not working, just wondering if more flights with shorter length would be better than less flights that are longer. I am averaging about 3-3.5 hours per lesson with pre flight briefing, pre flight inspection and post flight securing and debriefing. It’s not always easy getting...

We do a lot during the lessons, yesterday was 1.8hrs, we did 6 touch and goes at home airport. We then proceeded out to trading area and did 20 degree bank turns back to same heading, then some slow flight. After that we flew to another local airstrip and did 3 take off and landings to full stop...

Hello new to the forum, I am 8 lessons in for my ppl, my question is how long are you guys flying during each lesson? I am averaging about 2 hours a lesson and had a pilot friend say that was to long. I fly out of a small airport with virtually no wait time to take off or land and he says I...