Hi Stratus, as Allan has mentioned in order to hire aircraft you will indeed need to be a member of Highland Aero Club
. Joining is easy and can be done by paypal from the HAC website.
Part of the reason that training/aircraft hire is possible in Inverness is that the Aero Club makes it affordable to rent aircraft, you can trust me when I tell you that it would be significantly more expensive if it wasn't for the use of the HAC building, this proven at least in part by the fairly rapid demise of the predecessor when they moved to other facilities. So while you may indeed be quite happy to turn up to rent the aircraft you perhaps would not be so happy to pay the additional costs if the club weren't there
.
Join and use the facilities or choose not to but the realistic price you can expect to pay is a direct result of those facilities
not just the tea, coffee and telly
and you can be safe in the knowledge that if you fly about 4 hours a year, the club fee will have paid for itself
Danny