Thu Jun 18, 2020 12:03 pm
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Hi Folks
Hope everyone is keeping well.
I'm hoping to start my PPL this year as soon as the world opens up again. I've done a lot research into costs and timescales and have been rooting through the Pooley books etc but what I'm struggling to get information on is the realistic possibility of some of the aspects I'm hoping to achieve once I have my license.
What I'd like to achieve, other than the joy of flying. Is to be able to use my license to take myself (&wife and child occasionally!) away to places like Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland, Yorkshire and France etc etc. Not for lunch, but for short trips over a long weekend for example. (probably departing from Turweston / Oxford area). Are the intricacies of hangaring a plane for short periods of time at a local airfields too complex / pricey to make this a viable possibility? I'm under no illusion that there will be cheaper methods of getting to places and am more than happy to pay what it costs, however I'm wondering if there is more to it than I may be aware of, and whether those costs really do make it prohibitively expensive. Does anyone have any examples of what short trips such as this might look like? Secondly, whilst I'm in no rush to attempt a cross channel flight, is this something which most people achieve relatively soon after gaining their license or is it usually built towards over say, 5 years of flying? Are the difficulties of negotiating with the French airfields best avoided until you're a bit longer in the tooth?
I'm aware I've not factored in what aeroplane I'd be using for this as I have a good idea of options and costs involved in that side of things, it's really the details that I'm trying to find information on.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks all
Chris.
Hope everyone is keeping well.
I'm hoping to start my PPL this year as soon as the world opens up again. I've done a lot research into costs and timescales and have been rooting through the Pooley books etc but what I'm struggling to get information on is the realistic possibility of some of the aspects I'm hoping to achieve once I have my license.
What I'd like to achieve, other than the joy of flying. Is to be able to use my license to take myself (&wife and child occasionally!) away to places like Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland, Yorkshire and France etc etc. Not for lunch, but for short trips over a long weekend for example. (probably departing from Turweston / Oxford area). Are the intricacies of hangaring a plane for short periods of time at a local airfields too complex / pricey to make this a viable possibility? I'm under no illusion that there will be cheaper methods of getting to places and am more than happy to pay what it costs, however I'm wondering if there is more to it than I may be aware of, and whether those costs really do make it prohibitively expensive. Does anyone have any examples of what short trips such as this might look like? Secondly, whilst I'm in no rush to attempt a cross channel flight, is this something which most people achieve relatively soon after gaining their license or is it usually built towards over say, 5 years of flying? Are the difficulties of negotiating with the French airfields best avoided until you're a bit longer in the tooth?
I'm aware I've not factored in what aeroplane I'd be using for this as I have a good idea of options and costs involved in that side of things, it's really the details that I'm trying to find information on.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Thanks all
Chris.
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