You'd have to fix the weather first!
Help by getting an IR?
Then you'd have to fix the £3/minute hire costs
You can get a share of a plane?
There are a limited number of airfields located near any place you are likely to want to go, the vaguely economic ones have no lights, limited hours, no approaches.
This needs fixing to take the industry off. The cross-channel flights are where the value comes in.