Hi All, As part of the next phase of my mid life crisis, I have decided to take flying Lessons. Not commercial or anything, just a small plane licence. Had a Google, bit would always be grateful of people input. Does anyone know of local places that offer training etc. I see there is a place in leven, but not sure if they do the training. Thanks in advance!
Also some flying schools at Humberside Airport - aeroschool and POM I did a few lessons there a some years back. Landing fees were not too bad, check the Humberside Airport website - they should list the charges on there.
This is brill. I did wonder if they might. I live towards the humber bridge, so not a million miles away!
i had an hours introductory flying lesson for £170 about 5 yrs ago at the frank morgan school of flying based at humberside airport. real nice elderly chap instructed me. evil gallows humour once up there. my pal learnt to fly a microlight is it flexiwing? at leven.
Good on you Idi.. always been on my wish list. Used to work with a lad many moons ago, saved all his money and trained to be a pilot, seem to remember it cost him something like 40k (will the be right?) Last I heard of him, he'd got a job flying cargo for DHL.
Yea Leven do it. I have had 3/4 lessons a while back as I wanted to do the same. Unfortunately life got in the way. They said approx cost from the start to getting your license will be £5k-£8k depending on how many lessons you need. The planes they use there are very old though so just keep that in mind!
A friend of mine did this a few years ago and still flies today. The theory is about A level standard in difficulty so most would struggle on here…..
I'll give Leven and Umberside a ring and see what they say. Google suggests 6-9k in total depending how much of an idiot you are...so the latter for me. I had a colleague at work a long time ago who used to fly himself from Preston to away games! Seemed awesome!
For 6-9k you can get yourself a couple of really nice motorbikes - the perfect anti-dote to any mid life crisis; you know you want to!
I'd give both a try and see what you think of the instructors. First lesson, go with an hour as the first 30 minutes is a bit of a blur.
I’m going to live my mid life crisis vicariously through yours. Saves all that walking and learning stuff ****! Anyway. Humberside Airport definitely do lessons, or people with planes there do anyway as I knew someone who used to instruct out of there. I don’t have contact with him anymore, but do have a couple of contacts there so if you don’t find anything obvious drop me a PM and I’ll do some digging for you.
Needs a dolly bird half his age to do that. Or you can do that vicariously on selected internet sites ...
