Hiring planes for short trips

[Toppee]

Hey everyone, I’m an absolute newbie so apologies if this is a dumb question, but Is there an easy way to do short flights? For example, I want to visit my sister in lakes entrance in cup weekend and I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if I could fly those 260 Kim’s instead of drive them. Given aircraft appear to be hired by the hour I can’t see any way to do this without it costing thousands of dollars. Am I right? Is that the case? Has no one yet figured out a way to connect pilots to aircraft (Uber app style). If there is an app or some other way then I’d love to know about it. Thanks!

 

 

[alf jessup]

Toppee, usually hire by the hour goes on engine time not by the time you pick it up and drop it off so a 260km each way trip in a 100kt aircraft would be 3 to 3 1/2 hire time depending on winds