Originally Posted by
Planner01
Use your money to go modular. Get your PPL then IR(R) and hour build IFR on proper flight plans with instrument approaches into airports. Land a PA28 in Schiphol in IMC. These MPL courses are a lot of fluff. With modular, after 45 hours you'll be pilot in command. Get your IR(R) afterwards and it will put the hair on your back. Single pilot IFR in actual IMC would make most of the airline guys cry. MPL guys would crap the bed having to land a Cessna in Duxford.
The big schools want your money and nothing else.
All it takes for modular is a 30 second phone call to a local flying school or club to book a trail flight and you're off. By the time the integrated students are logging their first hour, you'll be busy flying over to France, Belgium and Germany for lunch, shooting an ILS into Southend on your way back.
You can't exercise the privileges of the IR R outside of UK airspace so landing at Schiphol in IMC with an IR R would be illegal.