No it's not, but it typically does. The costs I'm talking about are for a .40 size trainer and everything that most people end up buying. Often the person's instructor helps out with things like electric starters and ni-starters until the student buys their own. But my point is that by the time the student does have all their own equipment and haven't jury-rigged their flight box with garden hose and the like, it comes to way more than that $300-$400 that everyone talks about. It's just not true unless they get a park flyer or buy all their equipment used.