The vast majority of UK PPL students take 70-100 hours to get a PPL(H)
It is not possible to get paid for flight instruction in the UK until you have have a CPL & FI rating, and that takes a minimum of 285 hours (you can't start the FI course until you have 250 hours)
Originally Posted by
helicrazi
Whilst we allow ppl's to quality at 45 hours and instructors to instruct with barely many more hours, this is what we have to live with as an industry in the civvy world.