Originally Posted by
Uplinker
Glad to be corrected re the price.
Sorry if I was a bit harsh, now I immediately feel bad!
There are a few big name rip off merchants will take £120k for an integrated course to be fair. But most people on a budget will opt to go modular. You can get an FAA PPL for £7000 and an FAA IR for about the same. Or you can get an EASA PPL for under £10k and follow it with an IR(R). You can still hour build in a group aircraft in the south of England for £75 per hour of you want to build time slowly, or you can fly 6 hours a day in the US because of better weather and availability. Either of those routes will put you in a position to do a CBIR course which depending on what you've done during your hour building could be anything from 5 to 25 hours, adding the MEIR and CPL works out under £10k. Even with a decent MCC/JOC there's no need to spend more than £40k.