My flying lessons some facts and figures

Learning to Fly at (URL) Coventry Flying School

The Coventry lot seem to be a nice friendly bunch – sometimes I find that the schools and clubs seem to be filled with ex RAF and can feel a little bit exclusive and unfriendly.

You need a minimum of 45 hours to get your licence, which with all the sundries such as books, exams, club membership etc works out to be £5400. However very few people get their licence with just 45 hours. I’ve worked on 60 hours which would be ~ £7000.

As well as the practical exams you have to pass 7 theory exams

• aviation law
• meteorology
• navigation
• human performance
• aircraft technical
• radio telephony
• flight planning and performace

Looks at bit scary but I don’t think anyone has ever failed on the theory exams

Once you got your licence, hiring a plane is what most people do – cost ~ £85 per flying hour. Alternatively if you intend to do a lot of flying buying a group share of a plane is very popular.

If anyone is interested please feel free to contact me by email (christine.smith@warwick.ac.uk) or phone 75580 and I can give you more details. My next lesson is Fri 10th Sept – plan is to do climbing and descending turns – should be very vomit inducing. I have been told to expect to stop feeling sick by my 6th hour

Christine Smith : 02 Sep 2004 09:18 |  Tags: Flying |  Comments (1) |  Report a problem