How long did it take for you to get your ppl

[KidInk]

6 years / 56 hours... Started when I was 14 so money was tight I'm now 20 and have finally passed last week greatest feeling in the world.

[uniandpilot]

Congrats KidInk

whereabouts in the UK did you do your ppl and how was the weather for you.

[Phororhacos]

14 months and 63 hours from trial lesson to finishing the test. This included a 3 month break (1991-1992)

[KidInk]

Hi mate, I trained at shropshire aero club. Visibility was perfect for my test! Just the fact the sun was so low in the horizon and a 30kt wind at 3000ft made it difficult

[thing]

46:35 including the test over four months. Lost about a month of that to weather and clobbered the rest as much as I could in between work etc. We all learn differently; the best way for me to learn is to go at something hammer and tongs. If your way is to take two years and 70 hours then that's also fine. All that is required is a safe pilot at the end of it.

And well done KidInk! I visited Sleap this year, great museum you have there.

[funfly]

Don't rush it.
The question you will ask yourself after you have got your ppl and taken a few mates for a ride is "what do I do now?"

[thing]

The question you will ask yourself after you have got your ppl and taken a few mates for a ride is "what do I do now?"

Go places, go abroad , do a night rating, IR(R) rating, tailwheel, floats, aeros, the list is endless. There's not enough time in a lifetime to fill up all of the things you can do with an aeroplane, unless you lack imagination.

[Armchairflyer]

... unless you lack imagination.

Or money .

[thing]

I've had this conversation several times with the 'you must have a few bob to be able to afford flying' mob. I don't earn a lot and I'm always pretty sure that most folk earn more than me so I sit them down and work out what they spend on booze, fags, foreign holidays, new car in the drive etc. It's always far more than I spend a year on flying.

Depends how badly you want to fly.

[Armchairflyer]

Same here actually (no drugs except aviation, no fancy holidays or dinners, car almost as old as the airplanes I fly ), so my flying bug does not suffer from financial starvation. Still, there are plenty of aviation activities which are perfectly compatible with my imagination but not with my wallet .

Ontopic and for the stats: 47,5 hrs, 50 logbook entries, 75 days (July to September). And after having met several quite "unexpected" combinations of experience/skills/airmanship in my years of PPLing, I wholeheartedly concur with the claim that hours-to-solo or hours-to-PPL as such say nothing about pilot qualities.

[Peter-RB]

PPL (h) 40hrs in 1999, not stopped smiling since..

[Camargue]

about 7 hours .......
but then I did already have 148 hours on a UAS...
so I guess that makes 155 over 30 months (or more like 180 hours on the basis of chocks off/on time keeping)

[FANS]

And how many years did you keep flying after you got it?!

[flybymike]

That's probably a more interesting question.
32 years for me.

[Airclues]

4 weeks and 30 hours in March 1965. Continued flying for 43 years.

[Grob Queen]

Another slow learner here for the record.....

160 hours and 4 1/2 years so far and counting......

[ChrisJ800]

16hrs/3mths, prior 200hrs in gliders taken into account.

[flyinkiwi]

23 months and 81 hours all done part time over weekends and holidays. I did lots of non syllabus flying while I was a student because I wasn't in a hurry. As far as I am concerned it doesn't matter how long it takes as long as you get there in the end.