Buying or renting to acheive PPL and beyond
Hello all,
I hope this has not been covered before I know people get really annoyed on forums about questions that have been asked before.
First of all I live in the UK and I have only 1.5 hours of flying lessons under my belt. But I've been interested in aviation for a long time having worked at a college that taught ATC. I've finally reached a point in my life where I can (just about) afford to take flying lessons so I'm already getting started.
What I really want to know is, given the extreme cost of lessons, (the minimum I can get in my area £184 per hour), would it be so crazy considering I have two brothers one of whom is definitely keen, one of whom might be interested to actually BUY an aircraft.
Even saying the idea out loud sounds mental but having looked into the costs a little bit I'm not sure it would cost any more than the price of the lessons to keep it maintained and parked, and once we've all finished learning we then have a plane to sell, it just seems to make so much more sense in the long run.
Has anyone who is reading this ever bought a plane to learn ? Was it a big mistake ?
I've seen a couple of cessna 150's for sale for around £11,000. Obviously before buying an aircraft we would also want to be paying someone to check the thing over.
I never normally talk this much so I'll leave it here.
Cheers, Paul.