How much do you pay per hour?
 

I'm based at Biggin Hill Airport and it works out at £187 p/h. What does that sound like to you? Anyone else at EFG flying school mind telling me how much they pay..

I've never flown out of Biggin, but that looks a little expensive to me.

I work at Cranfield, and the school I tend to fly with here charges £150/hr dual for a C150, C170 for an AA5 and £175 for a C172 (+ £125pa membership).

Cranfield is a similar sized airport to Biggin, and the most expensive place to fly around here.

G

Brakes on to brakes off - I still don't understand how it works.
Including Landing fees, it's a C152

+ £3.48 charge, can't remember what it was, fuel surplus or something.

So you are telling us you are paying 200 quid per hour for a 152???

:eek::eek::eek:

99€/h for Diamond DA20, which includes one landing, fuel and VAT. Brakes off/on, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia (LJLJ).

£187p/h

Brakes on/off
Inc Landing Fees + Fuel Surcharge
C152

EFG flying school is were I'm training.

I pay £160 p/h at Panshanger in a PA-28. I flew briefly at Biggin and it worked out, over four hours, in between £185 and £215 p/h in a PA28 Warrior. And that, would you believe, was with discounted instruction based on putting down £1k in advance.

I expect landing on the moon is cheaper.

Thanks guys, I know Biggin Hill is an expensive airfield so I budgeted accordingly

Bleeding 'ell ... First time I rented a 152 it was £22 an hour. Now I feel old.:\

Ikarus C42 or EV-97 is £59ph with fuel with a £35 direct debit per month. I do love microlights ;-)

That's a lot of money. I do wonder, what's the limit for most people? I can't even afford the prices now:O

The 500man:

I see that their prices include vat at !5%!! They must be REALLY expensive now!!

Wow! That's cheap 59p/h + 35p month DD

Also £187p/h isn't affordable. I'm broke whilst learning to fly. Nearly 98% of my monthly wage is going to flying, currently living at home otherwise it'd take me 10 years to do it lol

AA5, £45/month, £90/hr

Mainair Blade, £35/month, fuel.

Okay, I had to buy the shares, but even then - as you say, renting group A is a rapid route to bankruptcy.

Equally however, in either microlights or group A - learning is a lot more expensive than afterwards. i'm sure you're not paying £59/hr including an instructor.

G

£136 per hour in a pa38 from EGNT inc instruction.

Yesterday, 8hrs flying on 4L of fuel, so about £1/hr. (50p/hr each as there were two of us.)

Holy Moly
 

That's expensive. Flying is these days though not let up in AvGas prices means it's going to continue to be.

Although I saw a packet of cigarettes is £8 now days. I used to smoke, when I smoked, a packet a day plus a few more at the weekend, around 8 packets a week. That's about £64 a week. Over a month that's around £256. So smoking is still working out more expensive then going flying for an hour and a bit each month.

Save money. Stop smoking, start flying.

Lol Fullwings, what did you do, go gliding in a motorglider/self starter?

I like the sound of 5% VAT! :)

He probably drove to the airfield!