How many hours per week?

[wingman1]

Was wondering if anyone had any advice about how many hours I should fly per week until I am able to get my ppl?
I am in the circuits now, and was told that my first solo should be coming up in the next week or so.
One of the CFIs at the club said twice a week was ideal, not too much not too little. Keeping in mind that I only have about $6500.00 left to use.

[iflyforpie]

If you are not busy with other things and you are eager and prepared for your lessons, I would say every day.

Three times a week is not a big deal.

I know people who have done two lessons per day and were fine.

[CelBatrin]

Financially its more efficient to fly more frequently. That way you won't forget things and have to re-train. I did 2 flights per day a few times for my PPL. I would recommend you go at least every other day.

[shitdisturber]

I used to tell students to fly as often as they could for the reason mentioned above. You'll spend a lot less time reviewing previous lessons and will get your license done in fewer hours; the proverbial short term pain, long term gain.

[E-Flyer]

Was wondering if anyone had any advice about how many hours I should fly per week until I am able to get my ppl?
I am in the circuits now, and was told that my first solo should be coming up in the next week or so.
One of the CFIs at the club said twice a week was ideal, not too much not too little. Keeping in mind that I only have about $6500.00 left to use.

Flying everyday and constantly acquiring new skills will eventually lead to the plateau of your learning; it'll seem as if you simply can't digest any new material.

It's a phase and you will go through it; flying every day is prone to experiencing that really soon.

On the other hand, it's much better than taking 10 months to do your private.

I think If you fly 4-5 times / week it should be good. This way you give yourself 2-3 days of a breather to go and sit by the beach and relax and think of non-aviation related things.

[hew44]

I always tell students to book as much as they can, for the above reason as well (not getting rusty and having to review) but also because you WILL be weathered out at some point, out of five flights in a week, depending on where you live, it may be rare to actually do all five

[sheephunter]

Wingman, have you finished your groundschool yet? I personally think it is good to have both flight and ground coming to a close at the same time and be able to do your written and flight test within days or weeks of each other. If so, trying to fly every day or at least every other day and studying in the time off should work and speed up the process and thus decrease the costs by saving any retraining on practices you knew but have let too much time go between flights to maintain any level of consistency in your performance. Also, your instructor will have a better grip of what you can do and what needs work by being there every day. I did it this way for my CPL and found that somethings that I went to bed not fully understanding, made perfectly good sense in the morning both in the flight and/or text. My PPL was long and drawn out due to work schedules and likely cost me twice as much for the flight training by always coming back after a month or so and having to backtrack on lessons I had already done... but really needed to go back over them. The more you fly, the better you will be, sooner. Have at ur and good luck.