build times in the 10,000 of hours and decades to a complete aircraft, but this can be very inexpensive.
Unless you are housed at Her Majesty's Pleasure, the cost of 10k hours is enough to fund a brand new IFR tourer.
And even if thus housed and supported, no normal person is going to find 10k spare hours before they are too old to pass a CAA Class 2
I seriously doubt anybody who actually flies for real is spending thousands of hours. Do you realise what a massive chunk of somebody's life that is???
I bet there are a lot of "build assist"
schemes going on, quietly... very quietly.
A home built can be operated at a fraction of the cost of a C of A machine, with a typical yearly saving on maintenance alone of £4k
Sure it's cheaper to be on a permit, but can you itemise the above 4k figure?