What is the cost in 2026 for a Private Pilot’s Licence?

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It’s FLYER‘s Learn To Fly Month, supported by British Airways. So we kick off our month-long campaign to get more people flying with a look at the cost of getting your PPL(A).

What d’ya think? £10k? £15k? £20k? We run through some of the figures, some of the options and remember our first solo flights – which vary from a flex-wing microlight to a glider to a Piper Cub!

Plus, in the News:

• Sonex Aircraft closes
• Avid founder and designer, Dean Wildon, RIP
• Microlight Awards + video chat with Owain Johns, CEO of the BMAA The
• Reno, sorry Roswell Air Races are back and this time all the really fast guys will be there
• Update on fuel prices

In What Caught My Eye:

• Ian wonders about a spectacular forced landing in Oregon’s immense Snake River Canyon
• Dave is excited about Pussy Galore’s Piper
• Ed speculates on the future of a new light twin from Poland

Plus:

• SkyDemon tip
• Weekend weather forecast
• Latest FLYER Club news including four new free landings for members
• Weekend events

Links:

Freedom Fox Adventures Hell’s Canyon p1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPn1Vh-ebAs

Freedom Fox Adventures Hell’s Canyon p2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrPiSsMzU_4

Sonex shutting down – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl9H0N_r8kE&t=3s

Timeline:
0:00 Intro
1:00 Start
1:15 SkyDemon tip
3:22 Weekend weather
8:11 News
27:26 Club News
29:12 Main story – Learn to fly month
42:12 What Caught My Eye
56:03 Events