reccomendations in Phoenix?

Driftingtrack,

Would anyone care to reccomend a
friendly flight school with a(some) decent/nice 172(s) where i might take
either a checkout and some solo time or a dual sight-seeing flight?


On the Scottsdale side, I'd recommend http://www.arizonaflightworks.com/

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Thomas Borchert wrote:
Driftingtrack,

Would anyone care to reccomend a
friendly flight school with a(some) decent/nice 172(s) where i might take
either a checkout and some solo time or a dual sight-seeing flight?


On the Scottsdale side, I'd recommend http://www.arizonaflightworks.com/

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Come on up to PRC, it's a half-hour flight to Sedona, an hour up to the
Grand Canyon, a 1:15 drive up from the valley. There are two FBO's here
that rent aircraft. Can't go wrong!

Come on up to PRC, it's a half-hour flight to Sedona, an hour up to
the Grand Canyon, a 1:15 drive up from the valley. There are two FBO's
here that rent aircraft. Can't go wrong!



THANK YOU all for some great reccomendations. We chose to take the drive
up to Prescott (PRC) and had a GREAT flight. I called the fbo number
listed on airnav and they gave us numbers for 2 of the 3 flight schools
there (1 is an Embry Riddle location.) Called North Aire and got a very
friendly response to all my questions from James. Because of the length
of the checkride, we decided to just take a dual flight up to the grand
canyon. Ash, our flight instructor couldn't have been nicer. After some
discussion of the differences in density altitude and their nice new
fuel-injected 180HP 172 from our 500ft elevation and 150HP carbeurated
airplane at home, we took off. I have read and can recite all of the
relevant information about a high and hot airport, but when we added full
power for a short field style T/O, i was shocked at just HOW DRAMATIC the
difference was. I considered for a brief second aborting the T/O after i
released the brakes because of how little acceleration we had. Of course
this was just newbie/lowlander paranoia and everything went off just
fine. Then we flew up to the grand canyon for a literally breathtaking
view. I had never seen it and i am thankful for the ability to see it
from the air.

THANK YOU James and especially Ash for a great experiance, some amazing
views, and some good lesons in the real world effects of density
altitude. Ash even threw in a discussion of an ILS approach just for the
fun of it. I guess i'll have to take another commercial flight out there
when i don't have so much work to do and try to take advantage of some of
the other suggestions here.

peace
DT