lily

Hello,
Has anyone trained at the Long Beach Flying Club? Their prices look really reasonable, but I'm worried it might be another school that wastes a lot of my time and money. Do they have good instructors and any kind of set curriculum for their students?

Thank you!

fakelefteye

Hi
\I did only one lesson in LBFC and I was disappointed because it is not the price they pretend on the website, I'm not telling you its not a bad school!
I had a not so good experience because the instructor I had charged me 60$ an hour and what I didn't like was that he was trying to rip me off a bit :
I told him i dont need ground school all i want is flying, I was like you ( I read that you can only fly on weekends) I was working full time so I could only flight on week ends, so after my 1st lesson I scheduled the next week end and the instructor was here and
instr :"ooohhh the sky is cloudy sorry we cant fly "
me in my mind " cool i drove 30miles for nothing he could have called me"
instr :' but i can give you ground schoool"
me : "no thanks i dont need GS"
instr: dont worry I wont charge you
me : ok then
after 3hours of ground school :
instr: i'm charging 60$/h but for you its 30$/h coool im paying 90$ for something i didn't need !
So now the GOOD PART : they have a LOT of aircrafts and a LOT of instructors so you can pick a better one. ( mine was a good instructor but a little too expensive for me )
So I gave up because I realized that flying on week ends would cost me too much because if you dont fly one weekend then you report for 15days and you have to learn everything again. so I prefer doing it right and full time.
I didnt start yet, I'm looking for other options but I'm still considering the LBFC because they have many instructors and aircraft and the simulators so I think its not too bad the thing is that you have to be clear with the instructors not to be ripp off ...
So when you enter ask for all the flight instructors contact, because I just happened to talk to my instructor who hooked me up. But different instructors have different rates. And they have to be light if you want to take the 152.

SloDrivr

had a friend who went there... had good luck with the school but he did dedicate his time and flew pretty much daily. said that prices were average.

Outlaw2097

Ive always been partial to CFC. Theyre the ones next to the C17 plant.

fakelefteye

hi could you tell me which instructor he had?and how much he paid for him?
thank you

Caelum Deus

A lot has changed in the past 5 years.
The school has been around for over 25 years. That should say enough considering most schools rarely reach 5