[bronco21016]

Yea, $60/hour is a sweet deal. You're not gonna find any plane, anywhere else for that cheap probably. Not one operating at a flight school. I've flown the 172 as well and it's a very nice plane. People always want to fly new stuff but that thing is a '78 and it's just as nice as a beat up 2002 or so flight school plane.

They used to run 2-3 150s and 2 172s but it was under the previous owner who didn't do so well in the flight school business. They leased planes instead of buying them outright like the current owner so their prices were a little higher.

The plane is 441PW a Conquest II. He's based at TTF and when I worked there I always washed his plane.

I've flown down to TOL a few times but never stopped in at the FBO. I'm a student at Western Michigan based at BTL. Right now though I'm getting my CFI at Allegan because they've got their Arrow at $129/hour and $36/hour for instruction which is a steal compared to what WMU is charging. Western is being hit hard with fuel prices and I think they now have the fuel surcharge for the Cirrus up to around $25/hour. That's on top of the $140/hour rental rate and $48/hour instruction. I'm not positive though since I haven't flown their in awhile. Luckily, I did most of my Cirrus time when it was still $140/hour flat rate. They started tacking on the fuel surcharges just as I was finishing my Instrument rating around last April.