In a twelve member Cessna 150 group I pay £40 per month and £60 per hour. Add to that about £10 per month for flying club membership and the same for an annual medical (though that's optional if you don't mind being restricted to NPPL) So if I fly for eighteen hours a year (I normally aim for 24 but the weather has kept it down a bit the past couple of years) that's a total of about £1800 or £100 per hour.
To that I also need to add the cost of petrol to drive to the airfield. That's a surprisingly large part of the total as I live a fair distance away but I tend to fly on about the same number of days each year (when the hourly was a lot less I simply flew further) so getting to the airfield probably adds a couple of hundred pounds to the annual total.
That seems like a lot but I've got friends who support a first division Rugby team and I'd be surprised if with travel to away matches, some of them involving overnights, season tickets, club membership, beers before and often dinners after the game, their hobby is costing them any less than mine (If they were premier league soccer supporters it would probably be a lot more) They don't even get to run around with the ball while I get to do something that, even after more than twenty years, I still have to pinch myself sometimes to believe I'm really doing.
Learning to fly and then continuing to fly is one of the best things I've ever done in my life so I'd say DO IT!!!
Last edited by 150commuter; 10th Aug 2013 at 17:54.