Seth Masia wrote:
Here's a strategy for doing the PPL efficiently and reasonably cheaply:

Buy the books and study at home. Use Kershner or Machado, which are
reasonably entertaining and very thorough. You'll need FAR/AIM and the Gleim
book is useful for last-minute test prep. Think about getting the written
out of the way early.
Ask around and find an experienced freelance instructor with a good local
repuation -- someone who's dedicated to the trade and will stick with you
through the whole process.
Train in an older 172. Density altitude at Phoenix means that a 152 has
marginal climb peformance and it will waste a lot of your time just getting
up to pattern altitude.
Train at an uncontrolled field, so you don't waste a lot of time taxiing and
waiting, with the engine turning, on the ground. Deer Valley is not
uncontrolled.


Excellent strategy. I wouldn't change a thing.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE