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I've only ever seen one £3000 PPL advertised in the UK. And I certainly don't want to put that particular outfit down as it has been debated at length in a recent thread. Suffice to to say that £3000, yes a good deal, bought you 45 hours and nothing else. You got what you paid for and the staff there told you so. Not a bad thing, just a different approach.
If you're not advertising for them, I apologise.
However,
£6000ish comes from the following:
An average student takes 55 to 65 hours to complete a PPL. Sure I saw a lot last year who got it in 45 hours. I also saw a lot who took 85 hours. In short 45 hours is a MINIMUM, nothing else.
Add to that books, navigation equipment, you're own decent headset if you feel the need, exam fees and test fees where applied, medical, away landing fees, accomodation if you going away for intensive training......................
You may choose better, newer or bigger aircraft to fly. You may choose to learn at a busy airfield with landing fees and holding times, getting less done each hour but wanting to get used to busy airspace and feeling the need to get your R/T sorted quickly.
If you opt for a £3000 PPL in the States, you still need the flights there, equipment, you may not complete the course in the time and I've never met anyone who didn't feel THEMSELVES they they needed and extra 3-10 hours after a US course to get used to flying in the UK.
If someone new to flying wants to know whats involved then lets at least be honest. Theres more space to give them all the info here than there is in a small advert with an eye-grabbing headline price.
If all this can be done for £3000, any Flying School will give you an Ops job tomorrow!!!!!!
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You'll see lots of info about the worst in schools and training in these pages. The only way to see the best is to visit a few and meet instructors, students and see the aircraft.
I stand by what I said, just trying to find the cheapest now does not necessarily mean the best or cheapest route to a PPL in the end.