Rans Flyer wrote:
NPPL(M) 25Hours @ £85.00 = £2125
PPL 45Hours @ £182.00 = £8190
The extra £6,000 that the PPL cost, could buy you a microlight
I beg to disagree.
The C42 Ikarus microlight - which my microlight school uses for training - is exactly the same airframe as the light aircraft kit built version. Just different paperwork and MAUW.
So, by telling the owner of a microlight C42 that they can get a licence in 25 hours, but telling the owner of a light aircraft one it will be 45 hours is morally wrong.
It will take 45 hours, at least, for an ab initio pilot to learn either to an adequate standard.
It might have been different learning to fly a Skycraft Scout or Weedhopper - the bee's knees where the regs first came in. (the weedhopper only had two axis of control and no flaps, for instance - makes Ex 4 a lot quicker to teach!)
Very best wishes,
Colin
ps. hope I haven't done myself out of potential students, but what we also try to offer at Strathaven is a different atmosphere to flying and training than the "group A" schools.