Prices
Hourly training costs - from 30th March 2026
Aircraft hire + instructor + additional training requirements (e.g touch and go’s, landing at an alternative airfield, instrument approaches)
- Piper Warrior/Citabria aircraft hire: £250 per hour (includes one landing at Cotswold Airport)
- Touch and go’s at Cotswold Airport: £10 each
- PPL/NPPL Instructor: £60 per hour
- IMC Instructor: £60 per hour
- Tailwheel/Aerobatics Instructor: £60 per hour
- Examiner/Instructor, Dave Jelly: £80 per hour
- Initial Skill Test Examiner Fee: £200
- Flying Instructor Course Pre-Entry Flight Test, or SEP Renewal/Revalidation, or IMC Examiner Fee: £200
- Flying Instructor Test Fee: £350
- Aero Medical Check Flights Examiner Fee: £120
- Aircraft Consultancy: £80 per hour
Trial flights (duration one hour)
- Piper Warrior: £310
- American Champion Citabria: £310
Membership
- Our membership fee is £110 per year, and ALWAYS runs in line with the release of the CAA Southern England chart. Membership includes a free CAA Chart which can be collected from the main office when you join.
- PPL Pack: £360
- Includes flight bag, Pooley's PPL books 1-7, Pooley's Flight Guide, CRP5 flight computer, kneeboard, plotter, ruler, protractor, pens and Freedom Aviation logbook.
Course Package Costs (based on minimum hours)
- Safety Pilot Course: from £3,500
- Includes 10hrs aircraft hire, instruction, all landings and 10hrs ground school.
- Night Rating: from £2,000
- Includes 5hrs aircraft hire, instruction and all landings including 5 full stops.
- Flying Instructor Course: from £13,000
- Includes training manual, ground school, aircraft hire and all landings during the course.
- Class Rating Instructor Course: from £3,000
- Includes training manual, groundschool, aircraft hire and all landings during the course.
- Advanced UPRT Course: from £1,600 (depending on number of students)
- Includes 5 hours theoretical knowledge instruction, 3 hours of dual flying training and all landings during the course.
Flight Radiotelephony Operators Licence (FRTOL)
- Radiotelephony Ground School: from £190 per day
- Includes ground school for the PPL communications written exam, and the exam fee. In addition to this, we will provide preparation for the FRTOL practical test.
- FRTOL Practical Test & Examiner Fee: £180
- The FRTOL Practical test takes approximately half a day, and is an electronic exam conducted by our in house FRTOL examiner, Dave Jelly.
Ground school
- Ground School: from £95 per day
- PPL/NPPL Exams: £50 each
- Ground School including exam at the end of the day: from £140 per day
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We always ensure the class size is small for a ground school day. However, if you would prefer 121 tuition this can be arranged, please ask us for further details and costs.
In addition to ground school days which cover the PPL written exam syllabus, we are happy to provide ground school in any area of flying training, as requested.