Becoming a Pilot

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OPTION 1: £42000

PPL - £5000 (You qualify on about 50hrs with six relatively simple written exams. The 50hrs depends on how good you are!)

Night Rating - £1000 (5 Hours. Just a few flights with an instructor to give you a feel for night flying.No formal test at the end.)

IMC - £1000 (About five hours, not a formal qualification and not necessary for the award of a CPL/IR, but a useful way of getting your hours up and getting a feel for instrument flying.)

Hour Building - £15000 (150 Hours at approximately £100 per hour to get you to 2000 Hours to enable you to start the CPL and for it to be issued, you can deduct whatever you do on your IMC or Night Rating from this as there is no specified amount of P1 time to start the CPL course. Bear in mind you need 200 hours total time with 100 hours P1 to apply for the issue of your CPL. 150hrs to start it. Most people go to the USA and do a block of hours at a discounted rate over a week or two for their hour building.You could cut the cost of this in half, if you did the hour building in Florida.)

£3000 - ATPL Groundschool (Actually costs around £2000, I factored in the exam costs and living expenses for the two week intensive courses.)


PPL + 150hrs + Night Rating + IMC (Optional) + Groundschool = CPL course starting requirements


CPL - £6000 (Inclusive of your Multi-Engine Rating. You could do a CPL on a complex-single aircraft at a lower cost, but you would still have to get your ME Rating at some stage. Inclusive is cheaper. A CPL is your right to work as a pilot.)

IR - £11000 - (Coupled with your CPL makes you an "airline pilot", a CPL/IR is also known as a 'Frozen ATPL'. The accepted minimum to get a job with an airline.)


*£42000*

P.S All of my figures are rounded up to the nearest thousand pounds. Also, most airlines ask for a Multi-Crew Course these days, on top of your Frozen ATPL. This is a two week class room course where they teach you how to behave on the flight deck. You turn up, you pass. No formal test. Only drawback is it costs £2000. All of my figures you can cut in half if you did them in the USA.


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OPTION 2: £20
The cheaper option is... do a 'Frank Abergnale Jr''... and take the transfers off model kits in your bath to make your own Pan-Am cheques.

*£20* - Fancy Dress Hire

HOPE THIS HELPS!!!
My figures will be a little out of date as this an old template... But you get the idea!