Cracking post combineharvester! The chip shop analogy is very good. I went to LFS rather than MF, why? The book price for the IR was roughly the same but when you looked at it, at LFS you did 25 hours in the sim/25 aircraft where as MF was 35 hours sim/15 aircraft - 10 extra hours in the aircraft and a more friendly atmosphere did it for me. Shame my old instructor isn't there any more. Don't be drawn in by expensive marketing & glossy brochures......