Originally Posted by Londonboy29
I'm just a bit concerned at the relative quality against doing it more spaced out in the UK??
Also, I've been told that due to the perfect weather in the US, when you get back to the UK you are going to need some 'conversion' hours in any case, just to get used to the UK weather. In the words of my first instructor at Cabair in Elstee...the US trained guys 'don't have a clue'...although I'm sure that's an exageration!
LB
doing it intensive i found was better as you don't have to go over things again that you did in your last lesson as can happen if you leave long gaps between lessons.
US weather is far from perfect, florida especially has severe tropical storms and hurricane season, i lost at least 4 days flying due to high winds. i went in november and the wind was regulary gusting to 23 kts, it's irrelevant really anyway as our solo wind limit was 16kts!
you will have to have conversion training i think the average is about 3-4 hours, i suppose it depends where you go, i did 1 hour over here and was checked out!
its rather a sweeping generalisation by your instructor as surely every student is different!