I found starting to use my PPL to be quite a hard transition. In the latter stages of the training it's all very focussed; solo landaway, QXC, skills test, you always know what is coming up and you are never more than a couple of hours away from the next milestone. Suddenly you get the PPL, wait a few weeks for the CAA to give you a licence and then you're on your own.
Of course, your school will rent you a spamcan but it is up to you to decide what to do with it. Most of us are fairly short of money after the PPL, so long flights are hard to justify and the local area trips begin. These are fairly dull, and with a bit of bad weather it would be easy run out of currency and to slowly stop bothering. I'm not surprised that many people never get past this stage.
Me? Well, I certainly struggled with the post-PPL blues. I had a five month break from flying almost as soon as I got the licence (first the weather, then starting to wonder if it was worth it - in the end I got my licence in September, logged a handful of hours and then didn't fly again until March. Even stopped reading PPRuNe for a while
). Luckily I discovered Robins, got going again and have had a year exploring local aerodromes, doing an IMC, starting some aeros - and, wx permitting, a PFA taildragger should be arriving at Goodwood on Sunday and a fifth of it is mine.
