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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"  :D

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.  8-)

Sounds great! Congrats on all your success!

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

i hear ya

its strange, but flight training in northeast Texas seems to be booming right now for some reason.

I spoke with an examiner today who had one airplane at her small school last we spoke...

...now she has a tail dragger and several gliders  which are flying daily go figure!

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.

"For only $49, you or a loved one can take a 30 minute intorductory flying lesson"

Managed to pick that one out, just pointing it out incase you want to change it. On the introride page. Repeated again towards the bottom of the page.

I think adding a favicon (picture displayed beside the URL, I think it would look nicer than the dogear sheet of paper I am seeing as the icon) would make it also much more professional.

Changing the title in the HTML might also make it better. Currently it is just the name of the URL, such as 'meet'. I think it would look better if you make it into 'Hangar Twenty Two - Meet The Instructor' or something like that.


Great site none the less.

"For only $49, you or a loved one can take a 30 minute intorductory flying lesson"

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

the unfortunate thing... all or most of the text and links which contain the words "introductory flying lesson" quotes were copied from erroneous text.

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.