I thought i would provide an update for those who are interested.

As many of you may know, i have been aiming at the goal of opening my own flight school  for quite some time now, originally, my plan was to open the business in the retirement stages of my airline career.

recently, opportunities have presented themselves which allow me to open the flight school now rather than later.

In the past 2 months i have accomplished the following:

a. Secured an on airport office and class room from which to base my flight school

b. I have acquired an airplane. though i really wanted that fancy Flight Design CT i have opted for what may be a more economical Cessna 150L

c. I have legitimately incorporated my business.

d. I have opened a business account in the company name, with myself on file as the "president" 

e. I have had the Cessna's old Apollo GPS removed and replaced with a panel mounted garmin 296 which i already owned

f. I have already sold 2 introductory flying lessons which are set to take place around Christmas

g. I have 3 students full time now!

h. i have completely overhauled my web site at www.h22aviation.com

I hope it all ads up to success!

still left to do: get my SS id and my FIT ID numbers. 

Congratulations John it looks like your on your way to make millions.  

I think your choice of aircraft (C150L) is a good one.

I was just thinking about something when I read your update.

The old girl and I were up at Buttonville Airport near Toronto Ontario the other day and she commented on the number of new sporty type cars in the parking lot compared to what we normally see at the bugsmasher fields we drop into.  Mostly half ton trucks, jeeps, landrovers and the odd two or three year old car.  
We also noticed that most of the students we saw were not even old enough to shave, students, new cars, flying lessons, well, I guess we know where the money is don't we?   LOL

The one instructor told us they were booked solid through the Christmas Holidays, now who the hell said there was a recession needs a kick where his brain rests on the chair.  

Good luck on your endeavours sounds like everything is taking off for you.  

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Must be very satisfying to finally launch your own enterprise, and see that it hasn't sunk before leaving port.

Congrats... and hang in there.

machineman9 wrote on Dec 10^th, 2008 at 4:37pm:


The Quality tab also has a hyperlink at the bottom of the page that says intorductory as well.  

Haha yeah. Websites can be a complete nightmare. I am helping to build one for our cadet squadron... So many errors pop up, usually when they shouldn't (ie, copied code where it worked on one page etc). Just trying to use as much PHP as we can so that one change can be repeated on many pages (loading .txt files inside the HTML)


But I do like it. A lot better than some flying school sites I have seen.