W1ld,

If you haven't done so already, get down to your local WH Smith and spend a few quid on 'Pilot' and 'Flyer' mags and check out the Ads in the back. Many flying schools have their own websites now but ones that haven't will still send you their course details through the post. As well as the UK, you will find adverts from Europe, Africa, Australia, NZ, Canada and the US.

Happy browsing

Shobdon
 

I guess this would be a good thread to post in as it's not worth starting a new one.

I plan on doing my PPL next year hopefully. The cheapest place I have found nearby is Shobdon aeroclub. I'm just wondering, why is it so much cheaper than everywhere else? Their rates are £99.75/hour dual. Sure they're only C152's but £99.75 is so much cheaper than anywhere else i've seen. Does anyone know of any catch in this or reason for why they are so cheap?

They seem to have covered pretty much all of the extra costs on their PPL page: http://www.aeroclub.co.uk/ (PPL course on LHS, second page along) That table lists their old price of £87.50 per hour which has recently gone up but is listed correctly in the "charges" section. (and where the table states
45 hours flying @ £87.50 per hour = £4488.75
4488.75/45 = 99.75 so they have just forgotten to update the 87.50 bit)
Hope that makes sense.

So yeah, does anyone know how Shobdon can afford to be £20-30 cheaper than most other schools?