On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:12:58 GMT, "Colin W Kingsbury"
wrote:


My 172's direct operating costs are about $50/hour. The Frasca at my local
flight school rents for $35. If I had to rent a plane at $90/hr wet we'd be
talking something.

You are not considering difference in effectiveness of the training
device. The Frasca blows any aircraft away, in my opinion, (and I've
done it both ways) as an efffective and efficient learning tool.

In any case, I think it is foolish to focus excessively on cost in getting
an instrument rating. If it costs $2000 more and you get better training,
sounds like a good deal to me.

-cwk.


No argument there. And if an accelerated course also is less
expensive, and I am convinced it usually is, there is no contest.

And let me add one more plug for the accelerated method.

Non-accelerated, you have a rating in 8-12 months.

Accelerated, you have the rating in 10 days, and spend those same 8-12
months flying in the system and gaining experience.

Who's thebetter instrument pilot at the end of those 8-12 months,
would you suppose?