I am not here to malign anyone or thier school, but I recently asked for the solo rent price of a PA28 at CC. Good God is what springs to mind! I wanted to hire it, not buy it!!!!!!!!
Your airmanship / RT will not suffer as a result of leaving Manchester. The way you pass information is exactly the same in the FIR if you choose to talk to anyone (always a good idea) the only difference is rather than being told you position in the queue to land you have to make the choice youself at an Air/Ground station. Remeber even under radar control VFR rules apply and seperation is your responsibilty, to the only difference you will notice is the lack of a tower telling you £cleared take off" as opposed to "take off at your discretion" Your airmanship will improve as you will need to think for yourself a lot more. What you will notice is a much smaller hole in you bank account, a MUCH smaller hole!!