What happens at enrolment?
Enrolment is the point at which you formally join the flight school and your training begins. It's the only significant upfront payment in the process, and it covers everything you need to get started.
The enrolment fee
Enrolment costs £450. This is a one-time fee paid when you formally join the school. After this, all training costs are on a pay-as-you-go basis — you pay for lessons as you fly them, with no further large upfront payments.
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Your personalised training planThe schedule we built with you during the onboarding process, confirmed and ready to start.
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Study materials for all nine theory subjectsComplete ground study materials covering every subject in the PPL theory syllabus.
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CAA student registrationWe register you with the Civil Aviation Authority as a student pilot on our approved training organisation.
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Your pilot's logbookThe official record of every flight you make — required for your PPL application and carried with you throughout your flying career.
When enrolment opens
Enrolment opens once you've reviewed and approved your training plan. We won't ask you to pay before you've seen exactly what your training schedule looks like — including the days, times, frequency, and projected timeline.
If you need to adjust anything in the plan before committing, we'll do that first. The fee is only paid once the schedule is something you're genuinely happy with.
The £295 you paid for your trial lesson is not deducted from the £450 enrolment fee — they're independent payments. The trial is the cost of finding out whether flight training is right for you; enrolment is the cost of joining the school.
After enrolment
Once you're enrolled, you book your first training lesson through our scheduling team and you're flying. All lessons from this point are charged at £295 per hour on a pay-as-you-go basis — you pay for each lesson as it happens, or in advance if you prefer. There are no further mandatory payments of any significant size until the skills test.
Your training plan is active from the day you enrol, but it isn't rigid. If your circumstances change — your availability shifts, you want to adjust the frequency, or you need to pause for a period — we can update the plan. The goal is training that fits your life and gets you to test standard sustainably.
As you progress through the syllabus, you'll sit nine CAA theory exams, each charged at £55 by the CAA. These are booked separately as you become ready for them — they're not part of the enrolment fee, but they're a relatively small and predictable cost spread across your training.
Consistent training — at least once a week — leads to fewer total hours needed and a lower overall cost. Students who train infrequently tend to need significantly more hours to reach test standard, because skills regress between lessons. We cover this in detail in Does flying more often reduce my overall cost?