Q for ex-pan am students

[chunk75]

Their is one rate for brief, 55/hr. Most students I know get charged an average of .3-.5 of brief per lesson. The student signs any charge tags so if you have a beef, just don't sign and talk it out. I keep all my old tags (invoices)...lemme take a peek here.

Picking out a couple of random tags out of the stack:

2.2 hour lesson in the pa44 and .8 brief
2.2 * 255 + .8*55

1.5 in the pa44, .6 brief

2.1 in the PA28, .2 brief

Chunk

[dakovich]

so thats $255.00 for the seminole per hour, and then brief costs you $55.00 per hour?

so they just include your instruction charges in the price of renting the aircraft ($255.00/hour), and then any additional "brief time is added at an additional $55.00 per hour?

Panam charges $181.00/hour in the seminole, and the instruction charges are the number of hours in the aircraft multiplied by 1.4 charged at what i beleive is $44 per hour from what i saw on my recipts. so they basically say on a one hour flight that you get one hour of instruction and .4 of an hour for additional briefing time automatically added.

[chunk75]

automatically? wow, that sux. Our curriculum calls for a certain amount of brief time and that's figured into the contracted costs, but most instructors don't charge what is allowed, therefore it's not uncommon to come in under budget!

Chunk

[aviator]

It is $55 per hour. How long you brief is how much your charged. The hour is just a recomendation. (If you only brief for half an hour or .5 the student is charged $22.50 in brief time for that lesson)

[Wolverine]

PanAm brief time is $35/hr

[dakovich]

so the Panam prices are a bit cheaper on paper, even though its not at all a good measure of total cost and quality or anything