That's an instructor who said me that! and I can tell you that I do not know at the moment any student, friends who did their CPL/IR with an extra hour of 10 hours!! here 5 hours is already a lot!!
I do not know if a few of you (english) did your course in france, but if there are, I a sure they got their CPL/IR with minimum hours.
Well i will tell you that later when I will have finished my course... But I really not stressed about the hours required...
But we ahve not superman instructor or we are not superman pilot, maybe most of us work very hard!
and like you, I would like to understand that difference! it is very funny to read your concern about these hours...
and like you said before, we are different. That's why I do not understand... because I saw many students not very good to pass their CPL/IR the first time!! so maybe the french examiners are more flexibles, ??
so I wonder how do you do in UK ?? if you have to do many extra hours I wonder where do you find your extra money ??
I talk to many Instructor of schools and they said me, "well the rate pass is High because we all know that the course is very expensive and fly is expensive! "
so I suppose if you don't have extra money (10 extras hour IR Ouchh!!) your FTO says you "bye bye " ??