Why does aviation seem to totally rely on hiding costs as a method of selling.
Getting away from the usual run of schools telling little lies like "get your PPL in just 45 hours" and "our students normally solo in 3 hours" my next run of little lies runs deeper.
Time to try some new aircraft I decided. So am looking around at different schemes from share purchase to outright hire and to date not one has been open about the costs involved.
Now, before you run out the arguement..must be a stingy bastard. I will admit there is no Rolls parked in my drive, so I am interested in costs and want to know them before I commit myself to anything.
Two places I have visited about a aircraft share have been amazingly cagey about the share cost. Very open about the costs per hour but one almost would not tell me how much the bloody aircraft share cost...kept telling me "just come and try it". It took a full ten minutes to get the information out of him as to the actual share cost.
The next pay per hour mob has ranged from trying hard to not let me discover things like monthly costs or one recently changed the "understood" check out cost to an amazing 155 pounds. In both cases the emphasis is on how cheap the thing is to hire per hour but getting the rest of the costs involved has been as difficult as discussing your sex life with nuns!
Web sites of the hirers do not always tell the full story, or it requires pressing browser buttons that are the size of a gnats dick.
I accept that there are costs here. I know it is not a cheap hobby. However hiding the costs from pilots will either end in arguments or (as I am getting) super sceptism. Just tell me the whole cost and let me make up my mind!!
Are the rest of you having this problem or am I just "different?"
