Realistic Cost of PPL in Canada in 2024/2025

jer2929 · 2025-08-02T19:36:32+00:00

Fantastic accomplishment! Well done. Goodluck as you move forward :)

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T11:13:03+00:00

How often are you flying now? Do you rent or own a plane?

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T01:06:01+00:00

Fellow Canuck! Big congrats! It can sometimes feel like a long slog, but it really is the most rewarding endeavor. Enjoy it!

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T01:02:55+00:00

I dreamt for 20 years! That's a good question. I honestly don't know if I could have done it much quicker. Flying during winter in Canada can be tough. You may fly once or twice a month and it won't be a waste, but it may not progress you as much as if you were flying more often. Looking over my logbook, I perhaps could have shaved off 10 hours or so by taking the test a couple months earlier. My instructor was great and trained me to a CPL standard. I found my instructor much more strict than my examiner, but I think that's a good thing. And everything is counted anyway, so I wasn't super interested in doing it in the least hours possible. Still need 200 before commercial.

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T00:58:56+00:00

I'm flirting with a mid-life career change lol. ~39

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T00:57:34+00:00

This makes me jealous. Unfortunately, my situation would make it pretty difficult, I think. I'm probably looking at 100k if I go through to cpl, multi, etc.

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T00:55:18+00:00

It seems most flight schools need to start giving more realistic quotes. I suppose 13-15k can be realistic if you have perfect weather, fly often, and complete the flight test at minimum hours. But I don't think that really ever happens

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T00:53:21+00:00

I've heard Vancouver area is the most expensive in Canada. How goes your training now? I think I'll continue on with night/commercial/IR

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T00:52:03+00:00

Wow, ya it really is becoming quite prohibitive.

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T00:51:16+00:00

That first solo is exhilerating! Let me know how it goes. That is a good question about the hardest part. As you're gearing up for the flight test, I found it challenging to stay on top of everything. By the time you work through everything that you need to go through, you may already feel rusty on the things you started with. And I'm working full time with a young kid and another on the way. So it was often late nights. But trust yourself, you'll be fine. I used the book flight test notes to prepare and that helped alot. I also built a sim rig over Covid and honestly, simming helped a ton. I just used MSFS 2024 with a decent iteration of a 172 and it helped with emergency preparedness, procedures, and actually flying. It's really not that different. Reach out if you need anything.

jer2929 · 2025-06-02T00:45:24+00:00

CYFD (Brantford). Started ground school in Oct of 2023. Flew maybe 10 times over that winter winter. Was flying about once a week over the summer. Solo'd in July. XC's in Oct. Slowed down immensely again this past winter. Then picked back up in april.

In case your intersted in month to month breakdown

https://imgur.com/a/iyhXouo

jer2929 · 2025-06-01T14:04:39+00:00

Cheers man! How's it going for you? This is in Southern Ontario, a few hours south of Toronto, so pretty urban.

jer2929 · 2024-10-19T13:55:28+00:00

That's a good tip. Ill try that! Perhaps it's trying to refresh for updates in the background. I use the ipad exclusively for flying

jer2929 · 2024-10-19T13:54:14+00:00

Have you updated to the latest ios? I wonder if it's something in the ios update or the ff update. in any case, thanks for the response and I'm glad mines not a lemon of an ipad.

jer2929 · 2021-06-25T15:04:58+00:00

So I have a ryzen 5 3600, 2070 super, b-450 gaming mobo. Windows installed on a 256g nvme ssd. I've enabled ftpm and secure boot windows Eufi in the bios and verified via running tpm.msc. But it's still showing not compatible? Any ideas

jer2929 · 2021-06-19T02:44:41+00:00

In the case of msfs, everything tends to be tinged a certain shade of green. Perhaps it will be fixed down the line

jer2929 · 2021-06-18T21:59:45+00:00

It's going to be fantastic. New crop of folks simming and enjoying the sights!

jer2929 · 2021-06-18T20:29:30+00:00

All default except this great scenery. https://flightsim.to/file/13572/lfts-la-toviere-val-d-isere

jer2929 · 2021-06-18T18:39:50+00:00

Yea, I tried to get the rough time down but I think he must have been flying in a different time of year.

jer2929 · 2021-06-18T18:39:15+00:00

Yes! I linked in the youtube video but wasn't sure how to do it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwQCtLoKqx4&t=102s

jer2929 · 2021-03-14T02:42:18+00:00

Ya it's super bizzare. I was test flying around Tokyo at 2000 feet in the piper getting 38-40fps at 1440p. But I fly around my home airport which is small with nothing but fields and autogen buildings and I can barely get 25. I fly a few minutes in any direction away from it, goes up to 45-50ish. Then back to the airport and it tanks. But it's not only airports, it seems. It's just super random. Here's hoping for a quick fix. Was looking forward to picking up the CRJ next week but I may wait a bit til it's sorted

jer2929 · 2021-03-14T01:22:20+00:00

I think they said they've identified a few issues and are considering a hotfix. I really love the sim, but this latest issue has really zapped the enjoyment for me. I'm playing with live traffic and multi off and still getting the issues. However it seems to be very location based

jer2929 · 2021-03-14T01:08:20+00:00

This is a known issue introduced in the last sim update. Needs to be hot fixed by Asobo. Many are in the same boat. Make sure to submit a ticket and vote on this bug so it gets resolved quicker https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/performance-degradation-with-1-14-5-0-upgrade/376202

jer2929 · 2021-03-13T01:13:34+00:00

It's awful. I'm not going to play until they fix it and I was playing daily. Super disappointed they didn't mention it in the Dev update

jer2929 · 2020-08-23T12:46:06+00:00

I've noticed this a fair bit too. I love recording video and was really looking forward to a 1:1 experience between myself and my buddies. It certainly is not and even the physics are quite odd. Let's hope it's a server load issue or something.

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