It's ten years since I learnt to fly, and I've since called it a day. Also I qualified before the JAR licence rules came in, so I don't have the exact figures. Hourly rates vary greatly. Also the way clubs charge varies: some charge for the time between brakes off and brakes on; others charge by "tacho" hour. The advantage of "tacho" hour charging is that if you spend 15 minutes in a queue to take off, the engine is only idling, and tacho counts more slowly than when you are airborne.
Ten years ago I reckoned on £100 per hour, including landing fee. I think you need a minimum of 45 hours to qualify for a JAR licence, the chances are it will take longer than that, especially if you learn at a busy airfield, where the taxi-ing counts towards your hours. With navigation equipment, text books and exam fees, I would estimate that a PPL would cost at least £ 6k today. I'm guessing, and maybe someone more recently qualified can give a more accurate figure.
Once qualified, the PPL allows you to fly any British-registered, single-engined aircraft, up to 5700 kg anywhere in the world, in Visual Flight Rules conditions (daylight, good visibility, not in cloud and in sight of the ground). So as well as the common-or-garden Cessna 152 and 172, and Piper PA-28, you can fly Tiger Moths, Spitfires, Yaks, Jet Provosts. An instructor must sign you off on each different make of aircraft before you can fly it as Pilot in Command.
As you live in Glasgow, you might later consider some form of instrument training, that would allow you to fly through and above cloud, and a mountain-flying course would be useful.
While I have now stopped flying with no intention of returning to it, I loved everything about learning to fly: first take-off, first landing, first solo, navigation, emergency drills, spin training (truly awesome), even the book learning.
I have some fantastic memories from flying:
my instructor asking me to pull over on the apron after ten hours of lessons, climbing out and saying, "Don't go to France.";
watching the setting sun reflect off the underside of my wings over the Thames estuary;
flying lower than the masts of yachts along the Blackwater (while observing minimum separation requirements;
seeing my plane's shadow race across the top of cloud, surrounded by a circular rainbow;
basic aerobatics: loops, barrel rolls, stall turn;
did I mention spinning?
taking my future wife to France for lunch.
To my mind, getting a PPL is a worthwhile exercise in its own right, even if you don't take it further. I would say that this is at best a single person's enterprise: there's less other stuff to compete for your time.
I hope this was useful, and wish you luck, whatever you decide to do.
"So as well as the common-or-garden Cessna 152 and 172, and Piper PA-28, you can fly Tiger Moths, Spitfires, Yaks, Jet Provosts" this is not true, to fly a Jet Provost you would need a jet rating, a PPL at it's basic level only provides you with the ability to fly single engined piston aircraft. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/accuse_write?qid=20071113131100AA5gt6O&kid=OJNuJUy7EE.nK8iiNKDY&s=comm&date=2007-11-20+03%3A31%3A57&.crumb=
Lots of info on Tayside Aviation website.......http://www.taysideaviation.co.uk/flying/licencing/
its about £100pr hour. will of course vary slightly at different schools,,you will get discount for a block booking,after passing your course, (ppl)u will be able to hire a plane and fly it, yes u can carry passengers,but only friends/family.. you cant charge people or do it for a living ,for that you need a cpl. and you cant fly at night unless you train and gain night rating course.
I obtained my PPL earlier in this year, I fly from Peterborough Conington. There are different rates for different aircraft and the rate also depends on wether you have an instructor or not, because obviously they need to paid for their time as well! A good 85% of the training is done with an instructor and most clubs in the UK use the Cessna 152 to do basic training, at my club, with an instructor the rate is around £105 per hour and a lesson is usually an hour in length, though later lessons in navigation etc. demand longer lessons usually up to about three hours. Some clubs use the larger Piper Warrior for basic training and this is more, usually around £20-30 extra per hour but I don't know an exact figure as I've never flown one. It cost me around £5000 to get my license and that includes the flying time, text books, maps, navigation equipment and other things. The PPL does allow you to carry passengers. There are various limiting factors on the PPL such as weather c
onditions and lighting, but you will learn about these as you progress through the course. There's also ground school involved and you have to take seven exams on topics such as meteorology, navigation and communications. If you have any secondary level qualifications in maths and the sciences (e.g. O-Levels GCSE's) then these shouldn't prove to challenging and most are actually quite enjoyable! The basic license can be extended with extra courses so you can fly at night and in weather conditions that are not legal for a basic PPL to fly in, it's up to you how far you take your license, the sky really is the limit!
it's around £100 a lesson or that may just be the gift experiance
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in the united states it's about 180 for about an hr/ and a half with an instructor. over-all you pay about 5000 dollars so i'm not sure if the UK would be similar. I haven't soloed yet but have 44 hours because i haven't been able to take lessons in succession.
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