What a crock of ****. That place must be the fastfood version of the helicopter training industry.
How the heck can you say you are "getting quality" with statements like this?:
HAI is a good school and although busy, you are still getting the quality training that it is renowned for. I dont know of any other school that can match everything they do, and in terms of hours, the people that say they only get 2 hours a week are probably not pushed to fly much more than that. If you are hard working and push hard with your instructor you can get everything done in less than 9 months, and then you have 15 months to work to build as many hours as you can. And since you all know that HAI is really busy, then think of it this way. If you get hired there you know you will be flying your ass off with students.
SO, you come out of your licence and then start teaching one of your pommie brethen all about the in's and out's of the helicopter game.
Its a joke.
This is the tragedy of our industry that the blind are leading the blind and "the man" (thanks to Jack B) is getting rich at your expense.
Why can you english not just use your initiative and seek a better road?
Read some books, magazines and research what you might need to be doing with this career of yours. Get off your own arse and find out the visa requirements??
Select a training organisation that might offer you more than just a ticket and token instructors licence.
Select a company where you might be able to go out and ground crew to watch the goings on of the business.
Select somewhere that you can sit in the coffee shop and hear real pilots with real jobs swap war stories lathered in bull****, that might actually have something contained in them you can learn from.
This all sounds a little like grade school...
Good luck tossing your hard earned pounds away.
I hope Bert, Rotorboy and SAS have a stab at this one too. What a crock.