Originally Posted by
IO540
If you are happy to stick to local flights in nice weather then VFR is OK. (But you better not be an owner because you are likely to soon get fed up with going nowhere). You can "go places" VFR but only if you are retired and have loads of time
Dont agree IO. Despite working in a very demanding full time job, I got in over 100 hours serious X country VFR-only in my Pioneer 300 in 2006. Those XC's included 3 airfields in Ireland, 11 in France, 5 in Spain, 4 in Morocco, 2 in the Channel Isles, and 23 in the UK.