CPL or IR school closeish to Derby?
Lost the will and busy bidding for August's work. Anyway, I'd heard from a friends's uncle who's butcher's dog had told him.....
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I must thank you all for the response on this. I never realised that opportunities for professional training were so limited around the Midlands area.
It looks like the evening weekend approach is out of the window, which is what I suspected but wasn't 100% on. I still think it's quite surprising becasue I would have thought if you could do the PPL part-time, instructor availability aside (which shouldn't be a problem at weekends), then the CPL sylabus looks quite relaxed in comparison - especially when you fly regularly, which I do.
The IR seems to be a completely different kettle, and I realised a long time ago that I need to pack up my laptop and commit full time for that one.
Wolverhampton would be my FTO of choice for full-time study anyway, and since it also seems be top (or bottom) of the pile pricewise I think I have made up my mind.
I have a work contract which expires in December, which means I will not be able to start any further training until the new year if I go full time. Given this I was thinking about doing IR before CPL (I know there is a thread on this already - so maybe I will join that?), on the basis that the IR has lots of Sim time at H'Penny Green and may be less weather dependant than the CPL. In Jan/Feb weather is likely to be a big issue.
Anyway, thanks to all for an interesting thread. Simon
It looks like the evening weekend approach is out of the window, which is what I suspected but wasn't 100% on. I still think it's quite surprising becasue I would have thought if you could do the PPL part-time, instructor availability aside (which shouldn't be a problem at weekends), then the CPL sylabus looks quite relaxed in comparison - especially when you fly regularly, which I do.
The IR seems to be a completely different kettle, and I realised a long time ago that I need to pack up my laptop and commit full time for that one.
Wolverhampton would be my FTO of choice for full-time study anyway, and since it also seems be top (or bottom) of the pile pricewise I think I have made up my mind.
I have a work contract which expires in December, which means I will not be able to start any further training until the new year if I go full time. Given this I was thinking about doing IR before CPL (I know there is a thread on this already - so maybe I will join that?), on the basis that the IR has lots of Sim time at H'Penny Green and may be less weather dependant than the CPL. In Jan/Feb weather is likely to be a big issue.
Anyway, thanks to all for an interesting thread. Simon
