I've been thinking about getting my PPL within a short time frame.

Say 3 months. How many lessons per week would I require to get it completed within that time frame? I can take mornings off from work to go down to moorabbin then drive into work.

Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Mr G wrote:

I don't know what the current requirements are but when I did mine, it
was minimum 35 hrs for restricted PPL then another 20 to get
unrestricted. So, say 55 hrs if you are a "born Pilot" or more probably,
60-70. At an hour a day, that might take you two months or so.
Alan

Mr G wrote:

I don't think it will be the flying that will be a broblem - Divide say 60
days into whatever time the course PPL requires. The unknown is how long it
will take you to do the theory and how much help (Q&A etc) your school will
give along with your flight instruction and how many hours you can afford to
spend hitting the books at home or at a theory school. Everyone will require
different times to complete the personal study.
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Mr G wrote:

into work.

With all respect to those posters who've given advice. By far the best
way for you is to ask the schools with whom you might learn. Apart from
the actual answer, the way in which they answer you, and the timeliness,
will tell you much that you need to know about each of them.

GB wrote:

Ah yes, the luxury of flying in Australia. Where I learnt, in the UK,
just finding days where the weather was suitable for pilot training was
an issue. Doing the required number of hours in three months there could
be a big ask.

During the middle of my training, I took 6 week holiday here in
Australia, and got in a few hours on the same type of aircraft. When I
got back home, my instructor commented that I was probably more current
than most of the school's students, given the weather they'd had.

Sylvia.

Mr G nospamla.net.no> wrote:

Do you have any time in planes at all? Or simulators?

I think the chepeast route is spend 2 to 3 months in the US and
then do a conversion. It will be cheaper, you willl end up with
a night rating and a better understanding complex air space and
IFR basics.

There are limits of how fast you can learn. All students go through
a point were they are getting better and then they think they get
worse as they overcompensate. Depending on how you cope with that
seems to determine if you need 40 or 200 hours to get your license.

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:43:20 +0000 (UTC)
Tim Hogard abnormal.com> wrote:

Tim Hogard abnormal.com> writes:

Do note that our oh-so-beloved Dept of Fatherland Security [aka DHS]
regards anyone wanting to enter the USA as a terrorist, and triplely so
if flight training is mentioned.

So if you can even get a visa, be prepared for 8 hours in a dark basement
at LAX, and that after the strip-search and anal exam.

Tim Hogard wrote:

And very poor actual flying skills ...

In article aioe.org>, Craig Welch pacific.net.sg>
wrote:

Why's that?

Hamish