How does onboarding work?
There's no pressure to commit at any stage. Our onboarding process is designed to give you a real picture of what training looks like before you're asked to make any decisions.
The five steps
From your first contact to your first training lesson, the process has five stages. Each one moves at your pace — there's no clock running between them.
No commitment until you're ready
The only payment before enrolment is your trial lesson. Everything between the trial and the point of enrolment — the training plan request, pre-registration, the plan review — involves no charge and no obligation.
If you decide after your trial lesson that it's not for you, or that now isn't the right time, that's completely fine. There's nothing owed and no pressure to explain.
If you do want to proceed, you'll have seen your training plan and know exactly what to expect before you pay a penny towards your PPL.
Your £295 trial lesson fee is not deducted from the enrolment fee — they're separate. But the trial is the most important step: it gives you real information to make the decision with.
After enrolment
Once you're enrolled, you start flying on your approved training plan. Lessons are booked through our scheduling team and charged at £295 per hour on a pay-as-you-go basis — there are no further large payments unless you choose to make them.
Your training plan isn't fixed. If your circumstances change — your schedule shifts, you want to fly more or less frequently, or life gets in the way — we can adjust the plan. The goal is for your training to be sustainable, not to hold you to a schedule that no longer works.
Students who fly consistently need fewer total hours to reach test standard, which means a lower overall cost. We explain why in Does flying more often reduce my overall cost?