I visited the Slough High Street branch a few weeks ago.
I didn't have an appointment, as I was only making a provisional enquiry, but a manager did come to speak to me (bit of relief I think from the asylum seekers). He said that he did know about the loans for the CPL course as they had done them before but, bearing in mind I am 29 have 10 years aviation experience and earn a fairly decent salary, can take 12 months out and still go back to my airline job and also have property to put up for security, they said I would need to put on £10K of my own money !!!.
Yeah, like I have that saved.......
He also said you need to be a customer of HSBC for at least 6 months and use them for your main bank account before they will consider you.
