Private Pilot License Training Cost and Requirements + 3 Tips
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In this video, I detail the basic requirements and costs associated with obtaining your Private Pilot License (PPL). Costs can vary depending on your specific location but the guidelines are consistent no matter where you go.
At the end of the video, I share 3 tips that I would suggest keeping in mind if you're looking to get your Private Pilot License Training. These tips are my opinion and I only share to try and help you in your journey. If you're looking to become an Ag Pilot, this is the first step you would want to complete.
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Dude, I just thought about it, what a great way to optimize your time doing videos. I can tell that you are a multi-tasker. No way in heck I’d be talking and spraying 🤣😂. Take care brother.
Thanks for watching! I’m usually just talking to myself in my head and thought maybe the info could be useful to someone.
I just discovered your channel and have really enjoyed it. I grew up watching Stearmans spraying our fields and B52’s and KC135’s from GFAFB. It inspired me to pursue my dreams of being a pilot. I was lucky to fly a lot of cool airplanes in the Air Force and NDANG. I recently retired from Delta after a 31 year career. I thought you gave some great career advice to any aspiring pilots. Keep up the great videos. “Fly low, fly fast”, we used to say that in the A10.
Wow! You have quite the background. That’s great to hear. Thanks for being here and we appreciate the support.
I did my ppl training in the evenings and weekends. During the day I held down a job so I never ran out of money. Doing my commercials right now the same way, works out pretty good since up here in Manitoba the sun goes down at 9,30 so there's still plenty of daylight after work for flying
That’s a great plan nice work!
For a private pilot certificate there is perhaps not much difference between an individual CFI/FBO and a Flight school (not a college) but when you get to the commercial/instrument a Part 141 Flight School can get you a commercial certificate with an instrument rating in 200 hours. In addition to a Commercial/instrument you should get a CFI, the most common way to build time. Working for an air taxi part 135 or airline part 121 will eventually require an ATP certificate. That will require 1500!hours with 500 of those being cross country. Hint: to build time buy a cheap slow airplane. Time counts, distance doesn’t. To build cross country time always land at another airport. After the qualifications for a private pilot, cross country is any flight where you land at another airport. Disclaimer: verify all of this with the current regulations. My memory of this is 30 years old.
Great advice thank you!
Holy krap, you’re spraying with your wheels in the beans and holding a monologue on PPL. When I’m just flying my Cessna 206, my brief to pax is “sterile cockpit on takeoff and approach. It’s nothing like what you’re doing. I guess it’s not your first week on the job!
Haha well the camera makes it looks closer. I’m about 5’ off the crop.
super helpful!! im 16 and i wanna be an ag pilot some day so thank you!
Thanks for watching!
An other great video! Thanks!
Thanks for watching John!
Great channel!
Thank you!
Good info. The only part I disagree with is suggesting not going to college for aviation. I have a aviation degree and the knowledge base I have verses other pilots I know is worlds apart. Im also a ag pilot by the way
Thanks for watching James.
Great job brother.
Thank you!
East coast CFI here. Good tips! Over here I tell people to plan between 8 and 12k. Currently instructing in a 172 so probably more the 8 to 10k range. Before I was in a Diamond DA40 and that was more 10 to 12k range. All depends on how prepared my student is for the lesson on how much ground time they get billed.
That’s great info thank you.
What is the failure rate for a private pilot license and commercial pilot license how many people fail.
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Thanks Dave!
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Thank you!!
Got my private in 97. Took me 58 hours in a C152 U. I got lucky and found a CFI with their own plane and my cost was $45/hr for the plane and $25/hr for the CFI. Now 23 years later the last I flew was in a C172 R @$125/hr and the ownerCFI was $50/hr which was fairly cheap. That was rural Tennessee. I checked prices un Colorado Springs a few year ago and both plane and instructor was over $200/hr for a 172! I had to quit flying after I got hit with divorce and child support in 2005. At that time I was in a flying club in Denver at Centennial Airport and paying $150/hr for a C 182 TR. I might get back into it soon. Last plane I was renting got totaled a year ago.
Yeah we live in Colorado in the off season and the rates there seem to be quite a bit higher.
Thanks for the tips I’m planning to get my ratings in Canada next year
That’s great! Glad to hear it.
The best Ag school on the planet is in north Battleford Saskatchewan Canada! North battleford air spray! If going to fly ag nobody else comes close to these guys! $ 18.375 CD is the cost for the training
@@jamesdehart5039 Hey that’s good to hear I’ve already contacted them about training there and I’m still trying to figure out if that’s my best option but it probably will be
Love your channel! Curious question, is there a danger of breathing the chemicals you spray while in the cockpit?
I think that is a concern. I’m in an enclosed cockpit and most of the time I am able to avoid that. However if I run a cleanup pass right after my last pass I can sometimes smell it. Every now and then I think it’s okay but I wouldn’t want to be inhaling it all day. Kind of like vehicle exhaust, I wouldn’t want to breath that in all day but smelling it once in awhile is not going to make you sick.
My local flight instructor was a former ferry/Ag pilot and as a student I shared the field with thrush commanders and little Pawnees. Now almost 45 years later I share the same airport with AT802s and 502s. I guess one could argue that I haven’t gone very far.
Haha sounds like the aircraft have definitely improved.
@@AgAviationAdventures Yea, the AT802A has twice the payload than the thrush commander, but those 800hp radials make for an imposing aircraft
Great videos. I got my Canadian PPL last year and am considering the AG pilot career path. Have you ever considered working in Australia or South America during their growing seasons so you could have summers off in North America? Just wondering if that's something people do. Thanks
That’s not a bad idea but I have not looked into that path. I know a few Austrian and New Zealand pilots that come to the US during there slow seasons.
I was curious thanks
You bet thanks for watching.
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Thanks Carlos!
@@AgAviationAdventures thank you for those wonderful videos that make us imagine that we are flying. it is my dreams to be able to work with air tractor planes
Good job guys subs have doubled in a fortnight
Thanks Rob!
This is how I "got in." After the Air Force for 4 years, I used my GI bill (1980) to go through flight school and earned all my ratings. After a year and a half full time I was hired by a small FBO as a CFI and part time 135 single engine charter pilot which soon grew to multi engine. 12 years later the owners wanted to move on to bigger and better things which they did. I bought the FBO from them and expanded it into an air ambulance operation. Did that very well for another 12 years until a divorce ended my successful operation. And after 20k hours TT, that's pretty hard to take. So my friends, take note, KEEP your eyes in the sky, and keep them there.
Divorce sucks! Sounds like you’ve done some pretty cool things though.
Do all the training You Can in a tailwheel aircraft the more time the better.
Great advice!
Where do you have your flap controls? We have it on the side of the cockpit behind the engine controls but I also know people that have the switches on the stick.
Yeah mine are mounted on the stick although the one behind the controls is still there and working but I don’t use it.
Off topic I suppose, but how do you know if you have a plugged nozzle? I spray with a JD 4830 with 90 ft booms and I find myself constantly looking for nozzle issues.
I just look at them while spraying. I have a mirror mounted on the outside and I can see the pattern behind me. I rarely have ever had a plugged nozzle though as the screen catches pretty much all debris.
there use to be an ag pilot school in mississippi 'i think' that would take you in with no flying experience and by the end you'll be ready for work. that ran about $65k.
I haven’t heard of that one but I don’t know all the schools out there.
So after you get your PPL then taildragger and instrument rating then of course getting the 250 for commercial but after that can you get hired and trained to crop dust or do you need to go to more school ? I know there are a few crop dusting schools but I wanted to know if some get in the job training
I personally recommend on the job training vs a school. I have a video published about the topic ua-cam.com/video/zyzudV1HT4s/v-deo.html
Oh man Tyson, when you said “go in the the buildings, where the bathrooms are”, I thought you were going to say, someone will have their name written on the stalls wall. “ For a good time call, or if you need flying lessons”.
Could you imagine?
😂
I'm just about to get my PPL. I'm a few flights away. Then I will get my tail wheel endorsement and then buy something like a Cessna 140 or 170. Can I simply get the rest of my 250 hours without an instructor? That would be my 100 hours of PIC, 50 hours of cross country, etc. And then wouldn't I only need to fly like 10 hours-ish with an instructor to get a commercial license? Of course I'll have another check ride and exam. It's just that sometimes people make it out to be that I have to be working with an instructor the whole time? Thanks!
Thanks for watching Jeff. I believe part 61.129 covers this but my understanding is you need 20 hours of training and the rest can be on your own. I would double check with a CFI or someone who is more in the “know” then me but it sounds like a great plan.
So if I wanted to get my private license I can’t just get that and then go to work after for a company to fly and out out fires in a AG plane??
No you need a commercial.
What do you do if college isn’t affordable. I’m only making enough money to go to college or start flying, I’ve already started taking flight lessons.
I would personally save for flight lessons. Even if you can get an associates degree at a community college it would maybe be better then nothing depending on what your end goal is.
I'd also suggest identifying your:
1) highest priorities
2) available funding options (work, grants and scholarships [e.g. EAA], living at home or with other family)
3) plan to get there
Then work the plan!
If you're not familiar with your nearest Experimental Aircraft Association chapter, then seek out EAA.org. An excellent resource for instructors, mentors, scholarships and practical advice. All the best!
What about buying your own aircraft then doing all your training in that aircraft. Would that be any cheaper?
Depends on what aircraft you get but you will need to factor in maintenance, fuel, hangar rent, insurance, etc. Some people do this and it turns out to be cheaper.
These rates are so freq'n high your average blue collar worker could not afford these rates that's what's always been my issue is the high rates thanks for the vid.
I agree. It’s tough and this is why general aviation is dying.
Thats why as a 34 year old man in MS ill probably never get to the point where i can afford to get my PPL. Everywhere around here is $8-12k minimum just for your basic PPL. Its sad the GA industry is pricing itself out.
I see that you use a stick in flying , What about a wheel ? do they make this aircraft with a wheel...
No these are all stick.
Would it be worth it to just buy a cheaper plane to get the hours for commercial?
Yeah sometimes that can be a good way to go.
I am a South African working in the US, can I do the licenses and become a ag pilot?
Yes
I'm currently a CFI in Georgia and I'm looking to transition into ag aviation. I only have an hour of tail wheel time. Can you still get hired with a company and have them train you and endorse you, or should you come in with a certain amount of tail wheel hours and endorsement? Also, I have heard that you will need to do some schooling for agriculture to be allowed to drop pesticides and herbicides, is it better to come in with that or get it once you get a job with a company?
You should go into it with some TW time. I think I had around 200 hours maybe. I didn’t have any knowledge of agriculture when I was given my first opportunity to spray. Take a look at the video “do you want to be an Ag pilot” where I mention some pointers.
From a Georgia Ag pilot, get some tail wheel time. Insurance companies are going to have some requirements for hours in a tailwheel aircraft. Find a J 3 cub or super cub if you can. Also, you need a pesticide applicators license from the Georgia Dept of Agriculture. There are three tests you’ll have to pass. Textbooks are available through the University of Georgia. Good luck.
I have my comercial. I have 900 hours. 800 tail wheel. I live in fort worth. How do i get started?? I want in!!
Be sure to watch the video “do you want o be an Ag pilot”. I have some pointers in it.
GAZOO, it's all about making contact with an operator. A chance meeting can change everything. Find a way to get yourself involved in the business. Being a loader for a spray season is a great way to get your foot in the door.
How do you trim your plane when your plane permanently losing weight?
That’s a great question. I have an adjustable trim tab that I’m always fiddling with that raises and lowers the nose.
@@AgAviationAdventures ah, i see! it's manualy without any computer help.
Your audio is very very low. I have to turn u up to 100% on the volume and then a commercial comes on and scares me because its so loud. What's up with that. Its only on your channel.
Huh I don’t know. I’ve not heard that from anyone else.
@@AgAviationAdventures most all of the channels I watch on UA-cam i can run at 30% and hear well. Yours is 100% and is still hard to hear.
Sorry we’ll look into that.
What about breathing in all the pesticide fumes? Farmers have the largest demographic for brain tumors.
I don’t know any farmers with cancer or brain tumors. Where do you get your information?
Please fix the sound quality it’s very annoying :(
I’ll work on that.
You lost me at Private Pilot "License".
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