Hi Charlie,
for private you need about 10 to 12 GrandUS$ (18.000 Pounds - that's nuts!!) in Panama, plus about 4 to 8 weeks, depending how much time you spend on the beach chasing girls. This PPL can be convalidated for 3 month at a time, but you also can work on your British Licence after that (one of our clients did just that), all your hours will count just fine (actually he did the Spanish Licence and uses it also in GB....)
a) Big soul-search: Do you REEAAAALY want to fly Helicopters for a living?
b) If just for fun and private, stay away from Europe! It will be boring and expensive. For the money spent for 5 hours you can also get a ticket fly to the US or Panama and fly these 5 hours here! Better yet safe the time for your vacation, get a 2-3 hour refresher (after you got your licence...) and fly here in your vacations - Adventure!
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c) Soul-search again: CPL is about 35.000 US$ for around 160 hours and no job. Lousy pay for lousy jobs, just to get a couple hours ferry time per month, count on 2-4 years to land a job to get going......you REEAAAAALY need the NEEEEEED for rotors.....
d)Go to a FAA certified doctor and have him check you out if you can get a 2nd class medical you should be safe for a long time for private flying (3rd class medical needed there...)
e) ....see a) and c) again!
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