Ok, I`m ancient but in my day it was a full PPL in year one, then some right hand seat work in a Dove doing SRA`s at dear old Hurn, airways flying in a light twin in year three and a week playing with BEA simulators.
What happened? The accountants got loose, the whole course got cut to 72 weeks, a tree hugging course got put in and the poor students of today get , as someone said 15 misleading hours. I think its called progress.