In order to help the instructor plan his day and provide efficient instruction, please contact the duty instructor during the week prior to the day you would like instruction. While instruction is generally done first-come, first-serve, the instructor will try to insure someone is coming out early if a busy day is anticipated. It wouldn't work for everyone to show up during the mid-afternoon! If too many people contact the instructor, he may have to limit the number to what he can handle effectively. If he can only do one or two flights with each student, no one makes any real progress. Since the instructor changes almost every week, you will have to contact the instructor each week you intend to fly. If you can only be available during part of the day, let the instructor know. He will work with you as best he can.

Those that come out without contacting the instructor will be handled after the ones that made prior arrangements.

How often should you fly? The easy answer is "as often as your schedule and finances allow". As a student, the more often you fly the faster your progress will be. If you have the opportunity to fly on both Saturday and Sunday, you will be surprised how much progress you will make on Sunday. If you fly less than once per month, you will find that you will make little, if any, progress as each lesson will simply bring your skills up to what they were at the end of the previous lesson. In the end, this is a personal decision, but do be aware of the effect that frequency of flying has on the rate of learning.

As a rated pilot, you still should fly frequently. The most proficient pilots are the ones that fly the most often. Flying infrequently causes one's flying skills to deteriorate.