Originally Posted by
rudestuff
I take it you're working full time? 4 weeks is quite achievable if you use your vacation wisely.
Let me qualify that for you. This assumes you train somewhere with reliable weather and reliable aircraft (so not the UK!), and you don't use any of that time to study theory. Turn up knowing everything and just fly. You could do it in a 4 week block or split it into 2x 2-week blocks. I know a guy who booked a cheap 2-week fly-drive to Florida and got 20ish hours and a solo endorsement, then studied the theory and went back some months later and did the same again, finishing his private and some extra hour building.