Mil bridging is okay, a hell of a lot better than the 'full' route.
The first part is done in house with bristol, this covers all sins including comms, nav, INS and polar nav, navigation aids, op procedures, air law, safety equip etc... This exam is then taken at your local education centre.
Once complete you need to sit air law and op procedures with the CAA at one of their venues. On completion you will be credited with your ATPL(H) theory. If you wish to have a licence issued on this theory you will need a civilian typed aircraft, skills check and minimum of 5 hours for the CPL, the Lynx is not rated! If you wish an ATPL(H) then you will need to complete IR training to have a multi crew/IR rating. I.e. Sikorsky S61N/S76 etc...
This can now be taken further with Bristol, who are the only training provider to off the ATPL(H) to ATPL(A) bridging. This consists of three papers with the CAA:
Principles of flight (A)
Performance (A) - was a **** of an exam!!!!
Composite bridging exam
P of F (A) was fairly easy, Performance was very hard (check Bristols web site), the composite exam was generally Ok but I think it will be reworked for the next time that it is dusted off.
If you want more detailed info, on flying hours requirements and CPL/IR then PM me.
Cheers
edited due to having a small keyboard and fat fingers! Also just noted that aunty pprune automatically covers up naughty words! How nice!