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Originally Posted by planesiscool  I was wondering if anyone else is being hit hard by the price of AVGAS. The price for 100LL at our flight school is $4.86/gallon. Thankfully my school charges us a wet right and all they do is tack on a $4.50/hour fuel surcharge; this comes to me paying about $130/hour for a 172 and that includes the instructor fee. I went to another flight school and they charge a dry rate and you will pay around 180-200/hr in a cessna 172. |
Does anyone else see the contradiction here? "Wet rate," but then you pay for 93% of the fuel? $130/hr isn't too bad with the instructor though, assuming said instructor gets paid ground time as well (as in, $130/flight hour + you pay ground the rest of the time he's there).
It's nearing $7 at KAUS. My school broke the $100/hr mark for 172's about 2 months ago. When I started flying 2 years ago I started out paying around $50/hr for a C152 and $70/hr for the same 172 that just broke $100. If this continues, I see the future of aviation consisting of:
1) Military pilots
2) Rich kids that didn't want to take over dad's business.