After reading
this post I guessed the minimax and the like could be used for hour building? ... Now I am not so sure?
Paying £100 to fly a 152/172 for an hour will soon make a huge dent in my bank account, but flying a smaller 'craft with low running costs seems like more smiles to the pound.
There seems to be plenty of smaller planes for sale with realistic running costs ... Evans VP1 is another.