This will increase the total hours you are flying and increase the overall cost of getting your license. This can mean your newly acquired skills may lapse and you will have to spend some time reviewing some maneuvers or knowledge from the past to ensure you still have them. If you know that you will not be able to afford the entire costs of your pilots license up front, then you will likely have to space out your training. Most of these have to do with the factor of “How much?”. How much time in your personal life to you have to devote to flying?.How good of a self-studying student are you?.Also keep in mind the FAA minimum of 40 hours to get your license. It really all depends on a few factors of which you need to truly be honest with yourself. There are people that have done it in as little as 3 months and there are those who have taken years to finally get their private license. How long it takes to get your PPL really depends on you. This way you can get an idea of what your personalized flight training will cost and can plan accordingly.
We have provided the above Cost of Flight Training Spreadsheet for FREE download below so you can fill in your own aircraft and instructor hourly rates as well as any other costs you might incur. The total number of plane rental and instructional hours are the FAA minimums to attain a Private Pilots License. Again these can vary but this is a general idea of the costs. The chart below shows the basic cost of private pilot training with some average costs entered in.
Lots of people out there are thinking “One day, I would love to learn how to fly a plane”.