At Inverness, there’s a £95 per annum membership charge. The Pa38 is £133, the Pa28 is £155 per hour. Charged 10 minutes more than take-off to land time, so no problem with ATC hold-ups.. Includes all landings at Inverness.
Despite the membership charge, Highland Aviation is an FBO, and the “Club”, which does organise events, is not involved in operations. Thank God. 
Airborne_Again wrote:
In my club it’s a yearly fee of about €370. Each 4-seater (C172R GTN650, C172S G1000, PA28-181 GNS430, all IFR with A/P) is €150/flight hr, wet.
Minimum hours: If you book the aircraft more than half a day in June-August, there is a minimum flight time of 1.5 hr/day.
Maximum booking period is 7 days, except for one aircraft primarily used for training where it is 24 hours. Exemptions possible by application to the club board.
There are no limitations on how/what/where you can fly except what the regulations and insurance conditions say.
No landing fees at the home airfield. The aircraft have season cards for free landing at most state-owned and many private airports.
Our club in Birr Airfield (EIBR)
Annual €480 (or €40pm) – Includes 1hr in F172M or 90min in EV97 Eurostar
F172M – €155ph wet
EV97 Eurostar Microlight – €100ph wet
Instructor – €25ph
Promotions are usually buy 6hrs for the price of 5hrs. Hours are tach not hobbs. No landing fee’s.
172driver wrote:
This can become very costly. In my club, there aren’t any (enforced) minimum hours, just a gentlemen’s agreement not to abuse the systemSame in my club (and in the two clubs I was a member in before) – there are some rules in place, but unless the busts are frequent and egregious, they are not enforced. Especially the “tourers” were/are the easiest planes to book for multiple days as these tend to have the lowest number of pilots flying them and virtually nobody books them for a Sunday afternoon flight around the patch, effectively blocking the airplane for somebody else’s weekend trip.
But these were straight rentals, so no monthly fees, right?
In that case, these offerings are not too expensive at all.
What hurts a bit are the landing fees at LOWG
An Arrow rents for 280 at Egelsbach, a DA40 TDI rents for 230 (block time!), a DA42 for 520 (block time!).
This thread leads me to believe that either the fixed costs at Graz/LOWG are very high (hangar etc..) or that you can indeed make a profit with the airplane.
Again for LOWG:
1970‘s PA28-200 – 240€ per flight hour wet
2011 DA40 G1000 (Jet A) – 240€ per fh wet
2006 Cirrus SR22 GTS ca. 420€ per fh wet
2000+ DA42 (Jet A) ca. 500 per fh wet
boscomantico wrote:
Some of the mentioned prices are really low. But most of them are indeed in rural areas. If you look at “city aeroclubs”, prices tend to be norticeably higher. Location does seem to make a big difference. Here are three examples: Mannheim, Augsburg, Frankfurt.
Agree, I’m also quite surprised by some of the prices mentioned here, certainly lower than what I used to pay in Europe. OTOH, @boscomantico, the links you give to German ‘city’ clubs contain some pretty eye-watering figures.
One thing, however, that hasn’t been mentioned are the minimum hours per day if touring. This can become very costly. In my club, there aren’t any (enforced) minimum hours, just a gentlemen’s agreement not to abuse the system. From what I can see so far, this works well and was one of the reasons that led me to join.
Cessna 150 – £105
Cessna 152 – £110
Cessna 172 – £130
No membership fee
Some of the mentioned prices are really low. But most of them are indeed in rural areas. If you look at “city aeroclubs”, prices tend to be norticeably higher. Location does seem to make a big difference. Here are three examples: Mannheim, Augsburg, Frankfurt.
My local club has 4 aircraft, membership is €360 / year.
They offer 4 aircraft for chartering:
- C172R – 145€
- C172S – 150€
- P28A Archer III (conventional) – 140€ (MoGas)
- P28A Archer III (glass, IFR) – 175€
All prices are wet, based on flight time, not hobbs or block time.
