Justinmg
Thanks for that post but I was told at the weekend that they have just lost their top instructor to another airfield and only have one full time and one very part time instructor left.
I Don't really want to take as long to do the course as you, I have a job where I can work my hours round flying. Would like to finish by Christmas this year or very early in the new year weather permitting.
I did hear that the lady who does the groundschool is very good indeed, might do the ground school with her and then find an alternative airfield with a few more instructors on site as I wouldn't have thought that one and a half instructors is enough to cope.
I was also a little worried on the advice I was given regarding medicals.
It was suggested that I went to my GP for a basic one then upgrade to another higher (class 1/2?) medical later. Surely wouldn't it be more prudent to have the higher class medical first? What if I were to fail the class 1/2 medical after doing say 30 hrs or so? I guess that I would end up wasting my money on lessons when there was no real chance of getting a license at the end of it all. (apart from the NPPL which won't be of much use to me as I want to be able to fly abroad.) Am I right in my thinking?
Thanks everyone for your help so far.