Instructor "for Sale"
 

A question.....Im looking to spash out £4,000-£5,000 on
gaining my PPL is there anything stopping and instructor from teaching me on a non school aircraft in his own time ?

I assume the package prices offered by school's could be undercut by an someone with an Instructor's rating that can
get access to an aircraft - perhaps their are insurance issue's ?

rt

AFAIK you can only train for the purposes of gaining a PPL in the UK at a Registered Facility or FTO.

Whilst the instructor can teach you - no time outside of the approved organisations may be counted towards licence issue.

Anyone care to correct me?

That's true. Instructed hours can only be counted toward the PPL if they were gained at a registered training facility.
However, registration is not very difficult and there's nothing stopping an instructor registering as a training facility on his or her own.
I nearly did this once but I don't have my own plane and the registration requires that your training aircraft be stated. To re-register every time I got hold of a different plane would be far too much of a pain.

If an instructor has his/her own plane then this is all quite easy. And if the student has a suitably insured plane to learn in then that's quite easy also - so long as they don't mind that plane being registered at the instructors "training facility" as a training aircraft.

rules and regs
 

You can get an instructor to teach you on a non school aircraft if you are an owner or part owner of that aircraft. both you and your instructor must however be members of a club, operate from a licenced airfield and have fire cover. The aircraft must normally have a public transport C of A. If you are an owner, this is I think you will find not the case. The problem is finding an instructor who is freelance and willing to do the training. A flying school won't be happy with one of there instructors moonlighting in a private aircraft.