Tiger_Moth,
I don't quite understand this. Firstly, are you expecting to get your PPL in 45 hours? You may do, but most people take longer. This isn't always to do with your ability; you can be scuppered by the weather, a change of instructor, all sorts of things. Secondly, what happens once you've got your PPL? Do you intend to go on flying? If not, you'll get rusty very quickly, to say nothing of having to do 12 hours in two years just to keep your licence. And most of the fun of flying comes after you've got your licence; getting a PPL is quite a hard grind actually. Yes, I know trial lessons are fun; they have to be; the schools want you to carry on!
What I mean is, if you're so short of money that you can only just afford to do a PPL given ideal circumstances, then doing it in a Tiger Moth is only going to make it hard for you to complete it at all. And if you're not, then why not learn on something easier, rather than probably pay for a lot of extra hours of dual flying?
I know you've set your heart of doing your PPL in a Tiger Moth. I just wonder if you're not caught up in the romanticism of it, rather than looking at the cold reality.
And by the way, we don't hate you.
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Whirly
To fly is human, to hover, divine.
[This message has been edited by Whirlybird (edited 27 April 2001).]