Our Services to You:
Flight instruction is of course
our premier service. We have observed, however, that most people become
pilots in order to purchase their own airplane. Therefore, we will help
you select an appropriate airplane and offer a lease arrangement where
we use your airplane when you are not, in order to reduce your cost of
ownership.
Douglas Aviation offers the
additional service of consultation on your first airplane purchase. For
a small fee, we will ask you to fill out a questionnaire specifying what
you want an airplane to do, and advise you which makes and models fit the
description. Further, we will keep an eye on the new and used markets for
you, forwarding information on prospect airplanes with specific notes and
comments.
Douglas Aviation will operate
as your company's flight department. If you own an aircraft of any
description and want to reduce the workload of ownership, engage Douglas
Aviation to manage the Aircraft for you.
Most students simply purchase
their own airplane after earning their Private license and hire a Douglas
Aviation Instructor to escort them on business trips in order to gain the
cross country and instrument time required for rating. This tends
to work well for businessmen; just be aware that you will incur the per
diem charge to have the instructor out of town all day.
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Unlike most schools, where the
instructors are building time for the airlines and students are second
class, our staff of competent Certificated Flight Instructors are under
contract and are dedicated to seeing YOU through. At Douglas Aviation,
you can expect one instructor from lesson one to successful completion
of your Certificate or Rating.
Douglas Aviation has access
to several airplanes and presently flies with students out of these airports:
Danville/Boyle County, Richmond/Madison County, Lebanon/Springfield, Lexington/BlueGrass,
Somerset, London, Williamsburg/Whitley County. We are diligently
seeking agreements with more airports, and will conduct flight instruction
wherever requested to do so; we will come to you anywhere East of the Mississippi
River.
Two or three flights per week, financed.
A 14 day course paid in advance with a completion guarantee in Danville
A 14 day course paid in advance with a completion guarantee in your home
town
Cessna 172- $140/hour, fuel
and instruction for Private and Instrument
Cessna 172- $80/hour dry rent
for solo rental
Cherokee 236- $170/hour, fuel
and instruction, instrument only please
Computer Aided Training Device-
eligible for 10 hours of instrument time- $55/hr
Instruction only in your plane-
$40/hour
Ground school- $375/student
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Can be done as a weekend seminar,
or weeknights for one week, 3 hours/night
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Times and locations will be
announced well in advance
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Private, Instrument and Commercial
written prep courses held
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Soon, we will administer the
exam immediately afterward at all airports
Financing
available from multiple sources
We accept cash, checks, most
major credit cards, and are working on GI Bill...
Douglas Aviation will be happy
to conduct your BFR. The required 1 hour ground will come straight
out of ASA's Oral
Exam Guide, and the minimum 1 hour flight will cover the type of flying
you normally do. You may expect a simulated emergency landing, a
power off stall, a power on stall and a short field landing. Flat
rates: in our PA-28-236, $200. In your airplane, $80.
An IPC is required for instrument
rated pilots who were unable to do the required flight elements in the
preceding 6 months. The FAA grants an automatic extension of an additional
6 months before a formal IPC is required, however, it is wise to get with
an instructor periodically to brush up on your skills. If you are
within your six month window, or the 6 month grace period, a Douglas Aviation
instructor will review your log book and do precisely what is needed to
meet the requirement; and no more. In our PA-28-236, $200.
In your airplane, $80.
If a full IPC is required,
it is essentially an instrument checkride on the PTS Areas and Tasks our
CFI determines. There will be a 1 hour oral quiz from ASA's
Oral
Exam Guide and at least a 1 hour flight doing simple attitude maneuvers,
intercepting VOR radials to get to the selected approaches, and those approaches.
The specific approaches will be selected and discussed during the oral
portion of the IPC. In our PA-28-236, $200. In your airplane,
$80.
Please don't forget to have
your valid medical, your most recent log book, and your pilot certificate
with you.
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