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Old 30th October 2007 | 16:47
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Slopey
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Up here in Sunny Aberdeen you're looking at £169 per hour plus £16 landing fee, so £185 all in, per hour. The Landing fee applies for touch and goes also, so over the course of a PPL you're going to accrue a small fortune in landing fees alone!

From my log book, getting my PPL (45 on the nail, with 135 landings) would have cost me £8,986 approx over the course of probably 18 months as the weather up here can be irritating (£2100 landing fees approx, £6886 on hire approx).

So, I went to the US. £4,500 all in including a week's car hire, several piss ups (towards the end), living expenses, the whole shooting match and all done from 3hrs to PPL in 4 weeks (even did 5 hours hour building at the end included in the above).

Best decision I ever made. And thank god I've found an excellent share in a 172 otherwise I'd never be able to afford to fly!
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