Chill Skyhawk - The 'uninformed tosh' remark was not aimed at you! However, by this time tomorrow, this thread will be full of it.
There are many on this board who, because they will never admit that spending twice as much and 20 times as long on getting their license to learn was a bit silly, therefore see the need to denigrate all US gained JAA-PPLs. I shall name no names, they will make themselves plain fairly soon.
Re my own 'detailed views' - I imagine a search for 'strafer' and 'florida' will show plenty, however, I'm more than happy to answer PMs regarding my time at OBA. (Or, if you've got a copy of 'Flyer' from Apr 2004 - you can read all about it there!
). Alternatively, there's a 50 page thread on Wannabees.
If you want one reason why you should do a intensive course abroad- then check out the current pink headsets thread by Mazzy something or other.