Sun May 03, 2020 6:10 am
#1766082
My 2p...
The upside of owning your own aircraft is that you can take it away for a weekend, or go to France for a week.
You can fly whenever you like, for as long as you can afford.
It’s cheaper to rent, but it’s not even close to flexible, it involves negotiations and timings, you can’t “be back when you feel”
This is totally different to when you learn.
Learning is done in 1 hour lessons (initially and for quite a while) and then opens out into solo nav exercises which aren’t much longer, and only becomes long (a few hours) for a few flights at the end.
If you have the cash to own and run an aircraft, then you have the cash to walk into a reputable school, say “I want to fly” tell them how quick you want a license (that’s a separate debate) and they’ll facilitate that. AND it will be cheaper.
Then buy and run an aircraft afterwards.
Of course, if money isn’t an issue and you fancy learning in your own aircraft, then why not? Plenty of instructors out there, but equally, why?
The age old question, where are you? I can recommend 2 schools as reputable in the Cambridge / Suffolk areas. Others know reputable schools all over the country.
I can name reputable feral instructors too!