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Flying clubs in Oakland or Concord?
I just moved up to Berkeley, CA to attend grad school. Before that, I lived in Silicon Valley and flew out of Palo Alto. I've been flying with a club there, Sundance, since '99 or so and I've been pretty happy. But the drive to KPAO from Berkeley is a bit long. I'm looking to see if anybody has recommendations for clubs at KOAK or KCCR. About me: I'm an instrument-rated private pilot, with about 300 hours. I was working on my commercial rating when I moved. I've got about 15 hours complex time, all of that in a 172RG. For fooling around, I'll take a 172 or an Archer, and for "trying to get somehwere" I usually opt for a C182. I'm looking for a club with a variety of aircraft, low rates, good maintenance, decent enough avionics to make IFR practical, and connections w/ good instructors so I might finish my commercial. (which is admittedly on the back-burner with school on). Any advice? -- dave jacobowitz73 --at-- yahoo --dot-- com |
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Not a club, but to finish your commercial, I can highly recommend
Pacific States Aviation, based at CCR. I was living in Claremont and it was 30 minutes door to door. Did my private there with their chief pilot, Doug Draper, who I highly recommend. Bob Bretz is good as well. 925-685-4400 Jonathan In .com jacobowitz73@ yahoo.com wrote: Thanks, for the response, I'll check it out. Otherwise, the response to this post has been sadly minimal. The rates at CA Airways seem okay, though. One reason I prefer a club is insurance. Club policies usually name the members, and so you can't be subrogated against. At an FBO I'll need a policy of my own. -- dave j Hamish Reid wrote: In article .com, wrote: I just moved up to Berkeley, CA to attend grad school. Before that, I lived in Silicon Valley and flew out of Palo Alto. I've been flying with a club there, Sundance, since '99 or so and I've been pretty happy. But the drive to KPAO from Berkeley is a bit long. I'm looking to see if anybody has recommendations for clubs at KOAK or KCCR. About me: I'm an instrument-rated private pilot, with about 300 hours. I was working on my commercial rating when I moved. I've got about 15 hours complex time, all of that in a 172RG. For fooling around, I'll take a 172 or an Archer, and for "trying to get somehwere" I usually opt for a C182. I'm looking for a club with a variety of aircraft, low rates, good maintenance, decent enough avionics to make IFR practical, and connections w/ good instructors so I might finish my commercial. ( which is admittedly on the back-burner with school on). Any advice? It's not a club per se, and it's at Hayward (KHWD) rather than Oakland, but I now use California Airways, http://www.california- airways.com/. It's been a pleasant experience -- the prices are reasonable (for the Bay Area), the planes well-maintained, there's a reasonable variety of planes available, and the people seem pretty good. I'm in a similar sort of situation as you -- instrument rated and starting to do the commercial (or starting to think about doing it :-) ) -- and it's worked out well so far. Hamish -- California Flying -- http://www.ylayali.com/yafb/blog.html |
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