Buying my own headset was the best thing ever. The ones the club provide in my experience are usually quite bad. I dont envy the passengers I take up having to use the club ones.

Take the course cost, double it and add 10% average I have heard of doing course is 60 hours, longest I have heard was five years and £80000.00 depends how quick you pick it up and how good your instructor is.

£80,000 on a PPL? thats madness

My course has cost me around £6500 so far, thats for the 45 hours all exams, books and essentials and landing fees. On about 39 hours at the moment and got one more nav flight to do before we start looking at my QXC. probably going to overshoot the 45 hours as i feel im going to need quite abit of general revision!

When i first started, i wasn't sure if i was just going to do the NPPL or course or the JAR PPL. Payed in installments and when i finally decided to upgrade to the JAR PPL course, found that the price had gone up a couple of hundred pounds (mainly due to the rocketing price of fuel!) So my advice would be agree on a fixed price from the start :ok:

I did my PPL last summer full time over a period of 3 months, though half of that was spent on the ground. Did it in 60 hours inclusive of test and it cost £7000 inclusive of everything. Note the airfield i did it at didn't have landing fees.