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Pre-takeoff checklist
This thread was updated. See post #25 on 11/26/18. Horizon turned out to be great!
Wow. Looking at spending a few days on the wrong coast, I mean East coast, and was looking into renting a plane from Horizon Aviation at CPK for a couple of hours.
Not that I am any sort of ace stick and rudder, but I do have over 1150 tt, with current IR, acro training, EMT training, tailwheel endorsement, mountain flying experience, glider experience and even hang gliding experience and currently fly my own HP/complex Piper Comanche 260B (over 1,000 hrs).
Girl on the phone told me that just to rent their cheapest/slowest plane will require a minimum of 3 to 4 hours of their training just to get checked out. That also includes an hour of ground instruction. All of that will cost me at least $500, if I get through their training in under the 4 hours! Then another couple hundred to rent it. So, for just a couple hours of rental for one day, it will cost me close to $1,000.00! For a Skycatcher! Add $30/hr (or $250, assuming I get through their training in less than 4 hours and fly on my own for 2) for a 172! Anyone want to split a charter jet for less?
Anybody know of a more reasonable alternative around the Norfolk/VA Beach area? I am stunned. :hammer:
Wow. Looking at spending a few days on the wrong coast, I mean East coast, and was looking into renting a plane from Horizon Aviation at CPK for a couple of hours.
Not that I am any sort of ace stick and rudder, but I do have over 1150 tt, with current IR, acro training, EMT training, tailwheel endorsement, mountain flying experience, glider experience and even hang gliding experience and currently fly my own HP/complex Piper Comanche 260B (over 1,000 hrs).
Girl on the phone told me that just to rent their cheapest/slowest plane will require a minimum of 3 to 4 hours of their training just to get checked out. That also includes an hour of ground instruction. All of that will cost me at least $500, if I get through their training in under the 4 hours! Then another couple hundred to rent it. So, for just a couple hours of rental for one day, it will cost me close to $1,000.00! For a Skycatcher! Add $30/hr (or $250, assuming I get through their training in less than 4 hours and fly on my own for 2) for a 172! Anyone want to split a charter jet for less?
Anybody know of a more reasonable alternative around the Norfolk/VA Beach area? I am stunned. :hammer:
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