Hi rob
My advise before you go signing yourself up to anything is to call into a flying school and ask them to explain the whole procedure to you . Its obvious that your very under knowledeged on the whole understanding of flight training .
It's a huge expence so it really does pay off to find out exactly what is involved before starting and the best way to do that is to sit down and get explained in plain simple english what is involved so you can stop them at any stage if you don't understand .flightime...