Expensive PPLs!
Spoke to a friend last night who has recently got a 1st time pass on his PPL at a very respected school in the Northern part of the country.
He took approx 12 months to complete his PPL and logged 91 hours in achieving it. The hours apparently due to having to revisit certain lessons after long breaks due to weather and also the fact that they flew to other airfields for cheaper landing fees! Whilst chatting I asked him if he had worked out how much his PPL had cost him. "Yes" came back the answer "£16,000".
From what I can make out he spent about £12k on flying and £4k landing fees. I nearly fell off my seat in the office when he told me as it has to be the most expensive PPL I have heard of.
Can anybody beat it???
Julian.