06/08/08 00:00

O.K. Here we are ready to open the ground school kit and see what it will take to get through the book work involved with getting the license. Let’s get a look at the contents:

Nifty Cheap-o Nylon carrying bag
Pilot Log Book
500 page text book
Folder containing the 30 or so CD-ROMs that contain the lesson movies and quizzes I will need to watch and pass
An E6B flight computer (which is the manual kind – no electricity required)
The syllabus
A Pilot Operating Handbook for the Cessna 172SP NAVIII (an instruction manual for the plane I will be learning in)
A Coupon – It seems that if I purchase a brand new Cessna (around $300,000 plus tax) they will knock a few thousand dollars off my training expenses. How kind of them)

The whole package is put together by King Schools – one of the most well known names in flight instruction. Their programs are very popular and many have been the backbone of Part 141 schools (kind of a fast-track licensing program).

This seems logical enough… I guess it’s time to get through the first lesson…