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From: cfiaime@ihnp4.UUCP (Jeff Williams)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Test cost ??
Message-ID: <718@ihnp4.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 23:57:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  3 23:57:08 1985
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The Private test with the examiner that I send my students to
charges a cool $120 for the private ticket.  However, he is 
worth the money simply because he is quite fair.  There is 
another around here that charges $70 for each ride, and there is
a 95% probability that you will blow the first ride just on the
principle of the thing.  (This examiner is also a CFI, recommends
his own students, gives them the ride, then busts them.)

My ATP ran something like $150 about 2 1/2 years ago, but that
included a 2 hour oral, 2 hour flight test and a half hour critique
after all was over.  (To say the least, when I crawled out of the
Seneca when it was all over, I was a prune for the next week.)

Check rides are expensive.  Consider, however, that the examiner
is in business for himself (herself), and has several expensive
schools to attend per year and several checkrides with the FAA
to keep the examiner rating.  You pays your money and you takes
you chances, but the good examiner is worth it.

				Jeff Williams
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