Originally Posted by
G_STRING
This sounds like the answer to my prayers!
Does anybody know who does the CRI single engine in the UK, and how much it costs?
I did mine at The Pilot Centre, Denham with the CFI. A most excellent experience, learned a lot about my own flying, quite apart from the stuff I needed to get my head around. It consisted of 3 hours flying and 25 hours ground studies, which in effect are the 1st 25h of the FI groundschool. I hope they count as a credit on the FI course at a later date. I did my test with the lady from Andrewsfield. This consisted of a long briefing, followed by a flight test which simulated a checkout on a PA28 for someone who had only flown a C150 before (quite a realistic scenario). The course itself was £1,000 and with the test fee and the CAA's fee it all came to £1,500.
I did it originally with the thought in mind of offering checkouts and 2-year flight reviews to members of our group, as we had recently lost one of our instructors.
Actually, I've been mostly engaged flying with fellow group members as a sort of back-up which proved its worth recently.
Like other posters here, I did it as an alternative to the FI, to begin with anyway, as at my stage in life I don't need the hours but I do need another dimension to my flying.
Also, as others have said, it is a most excellent course. It took me 4 days with another 1/2 day for the test.
Cheers,
TheOddOne