How's Business in Flight Training?

The flight school located at the Syracuse, NY, airport is seeing its
best year in the last three years. The late model C172S's are
renting for $95/hr and each of the four aircraft are now being rented
about 8 to 10 hours per day.

Good lord, and that's New York. Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.

Greg Esres ) wrote:

Good lord, and that's New York. Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.

The flight school manager insists there is a price point at $100 per hour
will not go above that. In the meantime, fuel, insurance, and unethical
maintenance billing all result in record high operating expenses.

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Peter












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Greg Esres wrote:

The flight school located at the Syracuse, NY, airport is seeing its
best year in the last three years. The late model C172S's are
renting for $95/hr and each of the four aircraft are now being rented
about 8 to 10 hours per day.

Good lord, and that's New York. Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.

That's *upstate* New York -- they wanted to shoot Deliverance there back in
the 1970's, but the cast and crew were too scared.

(Sorry, just joking -- I grew up across the border in Kingston, Ontario.
Besides, I have to fly my family to Syracuse in August for a highland
dancing competition.)



All the best,


David

David Megginson wrote:

That's *upstate* New York -- they wanted to shoot Deliverance there back in
the 1970's, but the cast and crew were too scared.

(Sorry, just joking -- I grew up across the border in Kingston, Ontario.
Besides, I have to fly my family to Syracuse in August for a highland
dancing competition.)

Hey, you had better watch yourself. I know what airways you fly! ;-)

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Peter







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"Peter R." wrote:

Hey, you had better watch yourself. I know what airways you fly! ;-)

You play the banjo? :-)

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

Peter R. wrote:

(Sorry, just joking -- I grew up across the border in Kingston, Ontario.
Besides, I have to fly my family to Syracuse in August for a highland
dancing competition.)

Hey, you had better watch yourself. I know what airways you fly! ;-)

Yes, my U.S. trips sometimes take me on the SYR-ART leg, just skirting the
west side of the big Fort Drum MOA on my way home to Ottawa -- Syracuse
looks like a pretty city from 8,000 ft up, anyway.


All the best,


David

Greg Esres wrote in message . ..
The flight school located at the Syracuse, NY, airport is seeing its
best year in the last three years. The late model C172S's are
renting for $95/hr and each of the four aircraft are now being rented
about 8 to 10 hours per day.

Good lord, and that's New York. Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.

Yikes that as bad as the West Valley Flying Club here in the Bay Area.
I don't think there is an equivalently moneyed area in Mississippi
that could support those rates.

I don't think there is an equivalently moneyed area in Mississippi
that could support those rates.

Most of the business comes from Memphis, which is just a few miles to
the North. Fedex pays for some of the flight training of its
employees, so we get a lot of that business.

But: I do think our prices are killing off the business.

Greg Esres wrote in message . ..
The flight school located at the Syracuse, NY, airport is seeing its
best year in the last three years. The late model C172S's are
renting for $95/hr and each of the four aircraft are now being rented
about 8 to 10 hours per day.

Good lord, and that's New York. Our C172S's are $135/hr, and that's
in Mississippi.

That has to include an instructor Too ????

That has to include an instructor Too ????

Nope.