This was the main reason I bought my own. Most of the flying I intend to do (and done some already) required to stay away for the night. In the club aircraft for a weekend they require a minimum of 3 hours rental if you want to take the aircraft away for the day. So if I had it for a Saturday and a Sunday but the journey was only 40 minutes there on the Saturday and 40 minutes back on the Sunday then I would still have to pay for 6 hours rental. They are a bit more reasonable during the week as training is not so busy. I also had to take the risk that there would actually be an aircraft available to hire for the weekend. It is very difficult for me to fly during the week anyway.
My advice would be to do your PPL in the club aircraft and then decide afterwards. You will have a lot more choice then as there are quite a few aircraft which are reasonable in price and cheap to run but they are not permitted to be used for training.
Last edited by Steevo25; 21st May 2013 at 08:53.