Wow! I can't believe I could actually buy a plane in theory.
However I don't know if I could handle the insurance, penniless chap that I am. Does insurance work against you if you are inexperienced like it would against a young driver or would my Tiger Moth experience stand me in good sted?
Fuel at £9- £13.5 an hour! I could go down there on a nice day and just fly all day long.
Main downside seems to be hangarage which could be too costly. Up to £250? Does that mean there are some places for around £100? Luton is too far away, it has to be within a bike ride, yeah a BIKE ride, maybe a motor bike if I'm lucky of where I live near Heathrow. So White Waltham/Booker seem well placed.
FNG, you have a plane at Waltham don't you? How much is hangarage?
By the way do all of these airfields have landing fees, if so how much, £5?
By the way, some other questions about turbulents:
1:It has a stick doesn't it?
2
oes it not have a trimmer? In my book the Tiger Club Lewis Benjamin says it doesn't but that was in 1955 or something.
3
oes the propeller need swung or does it have a starter?
4
o they have radios or does it vary from plane to plane?
5:I know nothing about maintenance. Is there anywhere I could go to learn about light aircraft maintenance so that I could legally perform the annual inspection myself? Or would this be too costly/time consuming?
6: Is all that's required (assuming nothing breaks/goes wrong) the annual inspection or do you need inspections after so many hours flying in it, ie 50, 100 hour checks?
I won't finish my license until the summer at least so has anyone got any ideas of where I could store the plane cheaply, ie not forking out £250 a month having it at an airfield when I can't even fly it?
Thanks for your answers, I'll go and research all this a bit more now.