Parkway

I started doing my PPL in Kalgoorlie and was paying $280 an hour. Then my son came into existence and I had to save my money haha

Thanks for the replies, sorry if I'm reposting an old topic! I'll dig around and have a read. It looks to me like RPL plus 5 hours of Nav training and a controlled airspace (since I will be flying out of Jandakot airport) is the way to go for me. I thought that you could only carry one passenger on an RPL, or is that just an airplane specific thing I'm muddling up, since a lot of people flying on RPLs are flying light sport planes? Also, I ended up emailing a flight school that specialises in light sport, and they told me that my 6 hours PPL training wouldn't count towards my 20 hours for RPL but would be helpful as experience. Not that I'm expecting to be done at exactly 20 hours, I understand that you're ready when you're ready.. I'm just looking for a ball park figure money wise to save towards so I can have the majority of the money there and I can get it done.

Hey all, first time poster. I just wanted to start up a conversation about the pros and cons of the new RPL (not RA-aus) versus the PPL. I am thinking of doing the RPL mainly because of cost, but if I'm also going to do cross country, radio, and Passenger endorsements, is it creeping towards being the same cost as a PPL? I would ask at a flight school but feel like I might get a slightly biased opinion haha. I have no interest in flying anything over 1500kg so the RPL suits me in that respect. I have done about 6 hours towards my PPL already too, which wouldn't count towards the RPL