Originally Posted by
bose-x
I did the entire practical in 6 weeks full time. The exams are the long part, you have to several hundred hours of compulsory self study and then take the exams which are every 2 months.
It is not just my experiance, read the forums and you will see that 18 months is a conservative estimate on the time it takes to do a JAA IR.
I eagerly await the posting of anyone who does the whole thing a couple of months......
5hrs a day of IR flying? I look forward to meeting the super humans that manage that, they are indeed sky gods.
They seem to get several people through it each month, many of which post on here. I will be out there myself in two weeks so i will let you know. It can be done in far less time than 18 months. You can do the full ATPL exams in less than 5 months and then complete the practical in 3 to 6 weeks. Thats a full year under your estimate.