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Old 16th Jun 2006, 16:33
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Gertrude the Wombat
 
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It's still the wrong question (assuming that you don't want to get a PPL just for box ticking and never fly again).

The right question is: how will you pay to keep flying afterwards?

Getting the PPL itself is a one-off capital cost. You just borrow the money. Many people simply wouldn't notice the extra interest from adding £6k or whatever to the mortgage, given today's house prices. Even if your only route to getting your hands on £6k is a personal loan at 20% that's still only around £23 per week interest, and you can get that doing a paper round these days.

So the interest on the capital you borrowed to do the PPL is lots less than you're going to be spending to keep flying.
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