Advising a trainee PPL to give up?
I have a friend who wishes to do an ATPL. Unfortunately, even after 200 hours of instruction, he has not received his PPL. I have not flown with him, but have spoken with his instructors who all tell me that he has enormous problems with navigation due to very poor spatial orientation skills.
The instructors are all very good - no blame lies with them.
But my feeling is that if my friend cannot get a PPL after 200 hours, he really has no chance of getting an IR, and that he should give up now, especially as the cost of the training so far has forced him to sell his house and his wife has left him...
What do others think? Do slow learning PPLs ever make it eventually?