Originally Posted by
PPL152
Personally I would want the airfield to be not too busy for the simple reason that during my training, I'd prefer to focus on learning the stuff I have to learn for the particular licence or rating syllabus, rather than dealing with that, plus an extreme load of traffic whooshing all around me(...) I don't see it that necessary.
On the contrary, better learn on a commercial airport with controlled airspace and a fair amount of traffic. It helps to develop good airmanship from the outset, by having to deal with ATIS, (sometimes) Clearance Delivery, GND, TWR, APP, etc. and to keep the "big picture" of what's happening around you, whether on the ground taxying, flying in the ATZ or further out on the approach.
That way, when progressing to instrument flying, mixing it with airline/bizjet traffic into commercial airports will be one less thing to worry about.
Cheers
