Originally Posted by BroomstickPilot
GeeRam,
I think you are missing something. If you go to the States and get your PPL in three or four weeks, you will then have your licence in the bag: done and dusted: over and done with. All you will need then is to do a few more hours with an instructor in the UK.
If you do it in the UK, it will drag on for months, even years. I did mine in the UK and it took 20 months.
No, not missing anything, the attraction of doing stateside is very clear...
However, it has to be weighed with the cost of the time off for me. A 4 week stint would cost me about the same as the course in lost earnings, thereby effectively doubling the cost. But in reality, it would be more as I would be forced to time it between contracts, which would really mean possibly up to another 2 weeks without pay to get work after returning.
So cost wise there would be no advantage, it's would be just the convience of doing in the one hit rather than being dragged out because of all the factors you mention.