In my (Belgian) club:
Yearly subscription: 150euro
DA40-180-G1000: 183euro/h
C172R: 156euro/h
AA5 Traveller: 141euro/h
DR400-120: 137euro/h
C152: 115euro/h
All prices wet and including landings at home base.
No other costs.
In my club:
Yearly subscription: 200EUR
2x PA28-161: 120EUR per flight hour wet
Dynamic WT9: 82EUR per flight hour wet
If you pay an extra 300EUR/year, you get a 20EUR/h rebate on any of the planes.
My French club:
Entry fee 50 €
Yearly fee 312 € (including FFA federation membership)
Rental prices per hour (wet):
Jodel D112: 90 €
Cessna 152: 118 €
2 x Piper Cub: 118 €
Dynamic WT9: 130 €
2 x Cessna 172 (160 hp): 157 €
Cessna 172S (180 hp) & Piper PA28 Archer-II (180 hp): 177 €
Jodel D140: 177 €
CAP10: 180 €
You can reduce these prices by up to 24 % with an extra 160 € per year, but only under certain conditions (flights longer than 2 hours or on Tuesdays and Wednesdays).
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.
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.
Cessna 150 – £105
Cessna 152 – £110
Cessna 172 – £130
No membership fee
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.
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
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!).
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.
