Originally Posted by zxcvbn
bus allergy:
oh, you mean Britain, where they charge you 700 pounds just to sit your CPL checkride, 200 pounds just to print and issue your licence, 160 pounds for an LPC, 70 pounds for a type rating renewal, and 2000 pounds to study for the ATPL/CPL exams, and then you pay the equivalent US$400 to train on an R22, and then after you've spent 60,000 pounds... you end up doing trial lessons at weekends for 2 years just to build hours
and we wonder why people train abroad?
a bit of form-filling and a few hours queuing is not really many hoops to jump through to get a J1 visa
Dont think you can explain it better than that.
The R-22 is an avarage 200$/hour in the US btw.