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Was just going to add that you don't HAVE to learn to fly in a
172**SP**! I realize that's the one in the videos that Cessna Pilot
Centers use in their training ... what great marketing strategy, huh?
"Let's encourage customers to spend almost twice as much as they have
to." An older, less-expensive-to-rent C172 or even a C152 (depending on
what you and your CFI weigh) will do just fine. You don't need a GPS or
AutoPilot or some of the other high-tech gadgets in the SP to learn how
to fly.

Not every time, but these are tools best learned from the get-go.

IMO, that's just paying through the nose for stuff throughout
the training that you won't use until much later. Of course, if money is
no object ...

And then, you can find the same plane for far less money...on the order of
$40/hr in some places. When you learn around a major metro area (Chandler is
a Phoenix 'burb), you can expect to pay LOTS more, especially when rented
through an FBO rather than a club.

I did my first 21 hrs in a 172, then went to a 182 because of my instructors
and my size; he was 6'3" about 225 and I'm 6'1", 205, mostly in the
shoulders and upper torso.

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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO