Apologies to timfly if this goes off topic, sorry to hear about your redundancy.
Max, so let me get this straight, that if you get a JAA CPL(H) which generally would provide one with roughly 140 hrs or so even if one gets an instructor rating, one can't instruct until you have 300 hrs? Is that correct?
So not only does one have the cost of the CPL(H), you have to somehow fund the 160hrs some other way which you can't get because it's unlikely that anybody will give you a flying job with so few hours directly after a CPL(H) what a crock of s**t..so it's only it's ever gonna be accessible to the boys (girls too) with rich mommies and daddies or sold their souls to IT!!
Whilst on the subject i've noticed a lot of you oldbbies out there with different licenses such as JAA, FAA, Candian, Aus, NZ. Are there no agreements between these countries? So for every license one has to set practically the same set of exams just to satisfy the local government ego? Yet more money! So to clear things up, does anybody know where the FAA license is accepted, where th JAA license is accept throughout the world appart from those resident countries. ie FAA - US, JAA - EU, Can - Canada etc?