flying lessons

Robert – I’ve moved your thread to General Aviation because, as Deano says, it sits better in there and you’ll probably get a few more replies from there too.

GA

thanks very much for the info guys! i will speak to my mum :p

Why not go down to your local club and half in with someone who’s going up that day? I’m sure they’d be nore than happy to have half the flight paid for…

dme

thanks very much for the info guys! i will speak to my mum :p

EGAA is £110 (if you know them) or £130 for an hour. £60 for 20mins and £95 for 30 mins. Thats for a Trial Lesson. Thats on a old Piper. Newtownards is slightly cheaper due to cheaper landing fees etc.

It all depends on the landing fees at the airport, my lessons at NCL can cost up to £150 for an hour if I’ve been doing circuits. I think the landing fees here are abut £13 a landing off peak and £20 odd peak and then you’ve got the plane on top.

Not all flying clubs/schools require payment of landing fees on top – at Nottingham East Midlands, East Midlands Flying School has a block landing deal and all landings are included in the base hire/lesson charges even if you’re doing circuits. Its worth checking this out if you’re serious – a slightly higher hire/instruction charge can sometimes more than be compensated for by not having to pay home-base landing fees.

At NEMA a C152 is around £90/hour wet including home based landings, a PA28 around £99. Flight instruction is approximately £25/hour on top of the aircraft fees if I remember correctly – its a while since I’ve flown any “dual”!! 😉

Andy

It all depends on the landing fees at the airport, my lessons at NCL can cost up to £150 for an hour if I’ve been doing circuits. I think the landing fees here are abut £13 a landing off peak and £20 odd peak and then you’ve got the plane on top.

But is that £104 the solo rate or instructor rate? I assume the £120 is the instructor rate for a trial lesson, and probably rising £10-£20 once they have you on board for the PPL, and it may be on a C152 or a Katana, or something which is relatively fuel efficient 🙂

Apologies I was quoted from someone who flies from Sleap.

Actual price there for an hour is £104. Although trial flights are £120

not at EGAA you can’t

I don’t know of any training organisation that can undertake flight training for £95 per/hr in the UK, please enlighten me

£130? You can fly for as little as 95 odd quid.

Unfortunately/Fortunately (delete as you see fit) im doing mine at Atlantic Flight Training Costing £136/hr

This needs to be in GA forum but as I can’t move it you are looking at about £130 – £150 for an hour with an instructor, trial lessons can be less than this but you pay for the time used pro rata

Dean

Solo at 16 but not get your licence until you are 17 was the last I heard.

Hi,

you can take flying lessons from any age, I’d say the earliest would be 12 or 13. Any younger and you may have problems seeing out of the thing.

You have to be 17 before you can go solo though – or is it 16 you can solo but not take your skills test until 17? Something like that.

dme

Originally posted by mike currill
Our medical requirements for the NPPL still seem to be somewhat stricter than places like the US and Cananda seem to accept but it still does not guarantee greater safety in aviation

The medical requirements for the NPPL are much the same as the requirements for your driving licence , so basically if you can drive you can fly , I think the NPPL is only good for getting lapsed pilots airborne again , people who have had their PPLA cancelled due to diabetes etc can now fly again.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! 😡

Moggy 😉

Avgas here is $7.60 per Imperial Gallon. (Slightly bigger than a wimpy US gallon, but not enough to make up the difference)

Jan 17th I took and passed my checkride for my PPL, I had 43 hours, and was paying $33 for a cessna 150/2 and $15 an hour for my instructor….100LL is $1.95 a gallon. I can see why so many come to the states to get training.

Jim Harley

www.flyskypark.com

No the nppl is a full licence. It is set with a lower minimum number of hours, though why it is thought that if 45 are needed for a ppl you can be safe in the same skies with less hours defeats me totally. (Nothing guarantees you will qualify in that minimum time however)

You can’t leave the UK. It is day VFR only and there may be a restriction on the speed of aircraft that can be flown (uncertain about this)

Basically, unless you have a medical problem ignore it and do the thing properly.

Moggy

this nppl thing is it like a provisional driver licence thing ie; can only fly with an instructor?

please excuse my ignorance

Originally posted by Moggy C
Very much depends where the pole you are sitting on is located.

Around the capital you can be looking at £140 per hour and upwards.

Out in the sticks £100 and less is quite common.

I think the minimum requirement is now 45 hours. To this you add books and stuff.

There is an odd halfway house thing called an NPPL that requires a few less hours, but this doesn’t let you fly out of the country so seems a bit self-defeating. Very low medical requirements though.

Moggy

Our medical requirements for the NPPL still seem to be somewhat stricter than places like the US and Cananda seem to accept but it still does not guarantee greater safety in aviation

thanx moggy

ahh my telephone pole, currently attached to some wires in the wilds of lincolnshire. I think my nearest schools at wickenby.

Does humberside still have a flying school?