Perhaps folks here can offer a little advice; Glider pilot from the UK, recently emigrated seeks PPL.. So far I have three different answers from three different people on the viability of being able to count some/all/none of my glider hours towards doing a PPL here. I have a shade over 50hours of sailplane time, qualified to fly cross country etc.
I would expect to have to work hard on a lot of the theory, nav and suchlike, particularly as sailplane nav is a little more ad-hoc (not being good at flying in straight lines), and I'm not used to worrying about an engine.. however, 20hrs to a GFPT and 20hrs more to a PPL seems like rather more than I'd expect to need, given I'm already reasonably competant at the stick and rudder stuff... and I've done the odd dead stick landing
Cheers,
Mark.