Why does it take a professional sports team to get a flying club some marketing? Why can't schools do this themselves?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKl6HkDzPEc
More people would fly if they did...
Why cant flight schools market like this?
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PilotHarry7
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Beefitarian
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Re: Why cant flight schools market like this?
Flying schools are not typically swimming in profits even though flying is so expensive. They might have needed a loan to buy those stickers on the strut before filming started. Usually a sports team can at least get sponsorship money to help make that sort of promotional material.PilotHarry7 wrote:Why does it take a professional sports team to get a flying club some marketing? Why can't schools do this themselves?
More people would fly if they did...
Re: Why cant flight schools market like this?
That cessna looked like an F18 on takeoff though. The marvels of top gun music
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Stephen Szikora
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Re: Why cant flight schools market like this?
Dude ... they just did! Do you think something like this happens by accident?PilotHarry7 wrote:Why does it take a professional sports team to get a flying club some marketing? Why can't schools do this themselves?
Kudos to them for creating some buzz, investing only an hour or so of flying time (and a little bit for the vinyl stickers.)
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Re: Why cant flight schools market like this?
They don't need to market - there's a long line of people outside the doors just waiting to come in to fill the pilot shortage 
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Re: Why cant flight schools market like this?
Ha funny. 3/4 of the people that inquire about getting a PPL turn tail at the estimate of 10-12K to get there.North Shore wrote:They don't need to market - there's a long line of people outside the doors just waiting to come in to fill the pilot shortage
Re: Why cant flight schools market like this?
Doubt it. There seems to be an abundance of soft/sheltered young adults with wealthy daddies in this business.Ha funny. 3/4 of the people that inquire about getting a PPL turn tail at the estimate of 10-12K to get there.
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Instructor_Mike
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Re: Why cant flight schools market like this?
I'm in a rural area where most of population doesn't like spending money and the richer folk are mostly in the city nearer other flight schools. That said most of the people that get so far as a discovery flight have already done a little research and know what they are getting themselves into hehe.CellPh2 wrote:Doubt it. There seems to be an abundance of soft/sheltered young adults with wealthy daddies in this business.Ha funny. 3/4 of the people that inquire about getting a PPL turn tail at the estimate of 10-12K to get there.
We've all said/heard it before.....If you want to make a small fortune in aviation, just start with a large one.
