Jay Honeck writes:
Additionally, would it be wise to contract a single CFI to do our
instruction? At approximately 50 hours per pupil, they could log a lot of
time. Maybe we could get a small discount?

Sounds like a good idea -- if you can keep everyone in line and on
schedule.

Even better -- if you have more than one student in the plane at a
time you may also be able to save some money. One flies, the other
observes and learns from the other's mistakes, then trade. This will
probably reduce the total number of hours at the controls required to
learn.

The hard part is getting folks to agree to a common schedule.

Chris