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187nj
31st Mar 2009, 10:29
Morning.

A little brain stormer for this bright and sunny morning!

So where is the cheapest place to hour build these days?

The pound to the dollar is s*it at the moment, 50 hours block rate coming back at £2231 in a Cessna 150, which obviously is a lot cheaper than the UK but my question is...

can I get it cheaper else where!?

Have a great day.

AlphaMale
31st Mar 2009, 11:06
South Africa is where I was looking to carry out my PPL.

It was just dropping from R19 to the GBP and was around R17/1GBP.

Making R75k ~ £4,400

Now that the GBP is weaker again the exchange rate is around R13.5/1GBP

As seen here;

GBP/ZAR Currency Conversion Chart - Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=GBPZAR=X#chart3:symbol=gbpzar=x;range=1y;indicator =volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on ;source=undefined)

R75K is over £5,500 and that's before you add the flight at £700 to get there.

Worth looking into though. :cool: