Pricing

For a full overview of training, please read the information in the training section.

NOTE: All our charges include airport fees for take-off and landing.  Some schools omit this charge to illustrate their hourly rate at a lower fee.

Trial flights

A flight from Kemble over the glorious Cotswolds is a truly fabulous experience to remember whether as a one-off experience, a gift for someone special or a first lesson towards gaining your pilot’s licence. See the Kemble Flying Club Facebook page for images and brief news items.

We have three incredible flight experiences for you to choose from to start with, and then some more options. The three include a briefing before the flight and an opportunity to take photographs of you in the aircraft before you set off:

One hour - (30 minutes in the air) - £124

Two hours - (1 hour in the air) - £202

Half Day Land Away - (2 hours in the air & coffee/cake stop at a local airfield) - £404

Special prices available for groups – ask for details.
Includes Temporary Club Membership
Request a Trial Flight / Ask Questions here or call us!

Club members in our hire scheme when they have a licence fly from between £76 and £89 per hour!

See ‘The MLG’ below

Half day training course

Combines a standard trial flight (30mins) and a full flying lesson (60 mins) with additional detailed introduction to microlight training and covering exercises 1 – 6 of the BMAA Syllabus thoroughly. Includes Temporary Club Membership, landing fees etc. - £354

Day training course

Extends the Half Day Training Course to a total of three hours flying with the aim of completing Phase 1 of the BMAA Syllabus exercises 1 – 9b. Includes Temporary Club Membership, landing fees etc. - £662

Pay as you learn

Once you have the feeling you want to learn to fly then join us as a Student Member for an annual fee of £60 and simply pay as you learn. Your Membership contribution helps us maintain our database/booking platform and website www.kembleflyingclubflightschoolbooking.com where you can book lessons, see your training records and all your account details including all financial transactions. The cost of your lesson is invoiced automatically and once you have entered card details the payment will be made for you. Importantly we don’t have to waste time hand writing invoices and taking payments.

FLYING LESSONS

A standard flying lesson is booked into a two hour slot: one hour briefing and debriefing and one hour flying. Everything is provided for you. The briefing time and landing fees are all included in the price (circuits costed as below). After any trial flight, from pure beginner, or following any initial training package, continuation training is priced at:

Flexwing Quik R: £172.00      Ikarus C42  £180.00      Skyranger Ninja* £180.00       Eurostar, EV-97   £180.00 

Training packages

The cost of the ‘packages’ are simply the hours multiplied by the hourly rate for a particular aircraft to give you a guide. Any advance payment towards a package is a payment to your account and invoices to your account will be for the prevailing charge at the time. Similarly, switching aircraft at any time is no problem at all as the system will simply deduct the correct cost from your account after each flight leaving the appropriate balance.

INTRO

Take this 10 hour ‘intro package’ as either individual lessons or as an intensive week long course.  This includes ten two hour flying slots (10 hrs flying) and the ground school as in the Day training course. We include a book of flight training briefing notes worth £20 to help you get started with the related theory. All ongoing training is costed in relation to aircraft running costs so the flexwing is the least costly and the EV-97, costs more to operate and is more expensive. 

Flexwing Quik R: £1,720.00    Ikarus C42 (A) £1,800.00   Skyranger Ninja* £1,800.00   Eurostar, EV-97 £1,800.00     

PILOT

The ‘Pilot’ package includes the ‘Intro’ plus another 15 hours flying training to meet the 25 hour minimum requirement for the NPPL (Microlight) Licence.  Again, the training can be taken as an intensive course, or the flying lessons can be booked individually.

Most people take the intro first and then upgrade. The cost to upgrade is:

Flexwing Quik R: £2,580.00     Ikarus C42 (A) £2,700.00    Skyranger Ninja* £2,700.00   Eurostar, EV-97  £2,700.00. 

The full Pilot Package is:

Flexwing Quik R: £4,300.00    Ikarus C42 (A) £4,500.00    Skyranger Ninja* £4,500.00      Eurostar, EV-97    £4,500.00 

BLOCKS

While some like to make a commitment with a package others like to pay for a block of five or ten lessons in advance and in fact on the flightschoolbooking.com system you can credit your account with whatever you like, or just pay as you go.

  CIRCUIT COSTS

Note: we are at an airport which has fantastic advantages for the safety of training and the learning experience as a whole but we do get charged ‘circuit’ fees when we complete addition take offs and landings. We will charge £5 for circuits, which include a touch and go on the runway.

GROUND SCHOOL

Most students prefer to come for their lesson rain or shine. This gives you the opportunity to have a one-on-one session with your instructor on any of the ground school subjects. We’ve found that this has helped with making more rapid progress with your actual flying training. Long briefings for flight exercises and ground school is always available on an individual basis or as group lectures as published on the Club noticeboard.

Specific booked ground school - £55 per hour

When flying cancelled due weather - you can opt for ground school at £45.00 for the two hour booked slot.

GROUND SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS

Test fees (includes prep time, invigilation, immediate marking and discussion on any incorrect answers) - £52

RADIO TELEPHONY TRAINING

We have rooms available for RT training.  The CAA has just revised the training syllabus for RT and we are updating our training. We have applied for an Examiner approval. Tuition on RT, both for the ground exam is charged at the Ground School rates above.

If the RT license application is made at the same time as your NPPL license application the CAA fee of £70 is waived.

THE GST

The GST is the General Skills Test and this is the final practical test you have to take to qualify for a license. The flying rarely takes more than 1hr 20 mins. A detailed document to help prepare you for the test is available in the Members area of the web site. There is a separate test called a Ground Oral (GO) which is a test about your understanding of the particular aircraft you fly and it is largely based on the individual aircraft’s manual.

The Examiner fee for the Ground Oral is £75.00.

The Examiner fee for the GST including documentation checking for your license application is £142.00.

Club membership

Student membership fee per annum - £60
Full Club membership fee per quarter - £297 see MLG below.
Associate Membership per annum (allows other pilots to use the facilities) - £72

STRIP FLYING SPECIAL

A great trip for qualified pilots.  Take a flying tour around local airstrips for some exciting short field experience.

Please call for a quotation.

INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

Due to our commitment to student training we currently are unable to offer Instructor Courses - with apologies.

Become an ‘owner’ - save more money! The MLG.

Being a part of the Members Lease Group (MLG) scheme will enable you to continue flying when you have a licence.

To buy into the scheme for a quarter is £297 and this effectively gives you similar privileges as being an aircraft owner and buys you hourly flying from £84 wet (i.e. including fuel).  MLG Members also pay a monthly fee of £74 towards hangarage and landing. The annual Club Membership fee is included. You are also exempt from any other cost e.g. insurance and maintenance etc. and can fly any of the aircraft in which you have been check-flown at the same hourly rate.  Duel check flying/training in any of our Members Lease Group aircraft is at a discounted rate. Full details of our Members Lease Group scheme and costs are available in the Members area of this web site or upon application.    Hourly charges wet (inc fuel) Quik R £84, Icarus C42 (A) £88, the Skyranger Ninja £88, EV-97 £88.

Please note:

  • All prices inclusive of VAT.

  • All charges include airport fees for take-off and landing. (Not circuit fees.)

  • Students starting regular training who will use the Club facilities must join the Flying Club.

  • Payment: we make no surcharge for the majority of credit card payments.

  • Intro and Pilot packages: we invite you to pay by credit card for your personal protection.

  • All charges may be subject to change without notice

  • Where a refund is agreed for any special reason an administration charge will be applied at 4.5%