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Where you learn to fly is decided on a map. These are the schools around you, what each one teaches and what it flies.
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Learning to fly takes months of lessons at the same aerodrome, so where you enrol matters more than any brochure. Four things worth checking at any flight school, in any country, before you pay a deposit.
You will drive to the airfield forty times or more before the licence. A school twenty minutes away keeps you flying every week; ninety minutes of motorway is how training quietly stops. It is why this page sorts schools by how far they are from you.
The PPL is the full private licence — an EASA minimum of 45 flight hours — and the door to night, instrument and commercial ratings later. The LAPL is shorter and cheaper at 30 hours, but it is European and carries passengers with limits. Microlights cost the least, and for flying for the joy of it, many pilots never need more. The chips on each listing say exactly which of these a school teaches.
Schools quote the legal minimum of hours; most students finish a PPL in 55 to 70. Compare the all-in hourly rate — aircraft, instructor and landing fees together — and ask what theory, exams and the medical add on top. An honest school answers in writing.
Every good school sells a trial flight: half an hour with an instructor, your hands on the controls, logged in your logbook if you continue. It is the cheapest way to test the aircraft, the teaching and your own stomach before committing to a course — and it makes a rather good gift.
This page is read by people who already decided to learn to fly and are choosing where.
Nobody lands here by accident.
Photos, the fleet you actually train on, every rating you teach.
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