Originally Posted by
AdamSt205
My advice would be to get him some lessons and see how he gets on. I have no idea of your financial situation but for someone in your husbands position something like the speedbird academy ends up being hugely expensive as you cannot work for two years. Plus you have to fund it and before you know it you have "spent" a quarter of a million getting your licence. Even if you get into the "free" course you still have loss of earnings over two years and start on a lower salary. Going the modular route you can do it for a fraction of that whilst still being able to work. Even going the modular route you can still get it done in good time. I plan to be finished in a little over two years.
Firstly, congratulations on the PPL and good luck with the exams.
Secondly, in no way does it cost £250k to go from 'zero to hero' as it were.
One of the most reputable schools out there, FTE Jerez, charges £112k for their full UK CAA programme of zero to CPL/IR/ APS-MCC etc. That's full board and includes uniform (eww), accommodation, three meals a day, all skills tests, medical renewal etc. You can probably add a couple of thousand on top for initial medical, equipment, flights, socializing etc. 115-120k tops.
As you correctly identify, modular can be done cheaper. Though the price of schools in the UK has really gone up a lot since I looked into flight schools so I can't give an exact figure. Plus long gone are the UK in EASA days when you could head out to Poland and come in under £50k.
For the OP, no idea on the process with BA, but good luck to your husband. It would be terrible to never try and have all these what ifs.
What advice I can give is look in detail at the application process as you are hopefully doing. The psychometric testing needs practice - and lots of it. There's very little 'natural aptitude' in it unfortunately, and basically all successful candidates will have paid for programmes/ websites to practice these. Interviews can also be prepared and practised for.