Ok cheers for the info guys. We're meeting up this weekend to discuss it further and maybe look at some potential candidates. Ghengis, I wouldn't mind flying a PA-38, never flown one before so I'll need to try and blag a flight with someone to compare it to my current training aircraft (PA-28 Warrior and TB-9 Tampico). Zulu Alpha, I have looked at doing my PPL in the US, if you exclude the one time cost of actually buying the aircraft then it actually works out marginally cheaper to do it here than the US, though if this goes t*ts up, I will probably go to the US!