I went to SFC last year. The prices you are provided in the literature are
estimates and do not include everything.
This is what it cost me:
PPL - £5,800
Night Qualification - £850
Hour-building (not through SFC) - £11,000
ATPL Theory at BGS - £3,800
CPL - £5,100
ME - £2,100
IR - £15,000
£43,650
Not partialling the CPL and IR would have saved me £2,000...
And I didn't do cheap hour-building!
But this does include:
170A fees and aircraft hire
Holding, circuits, approach, landing fees for training and Skills Test
CAA ATPL Theory Exam fees
CPL and IR Skills Test fees
Licence Issue Fees (mainly included in IR costs).
Accommodation for 4 weeks in Bristol for brush up courses and 2 weeks in Gatwick for exams.
And, of course, a lot people
do go over hours, not because they
have to, but because they decide to do an extra flight to keep current while waiting for a Skills Test or decide it that extra flight gives greater security going into the Skills Test (which you don't want to fail!).
Also, the fuel surcharge last year adds hundreds to your costs over the course.
Have fun at SFC. It's a good place.
StudentHenry.
Edited to say:
The owner of SFC also owns the airfield, so I should imagine their overheads are considerably less than other comparable sized modular schools.
You assume he spends his money on SFC and the Airfield rather than his horses...