Thanks for your post clear prop. I would indeed prefer to train in the uk, i think it would be beneficial. What would your advice be to a PPL instructor who is looking to progress to instruct CPL or IR. How would you suggest they build the appropriate experience needed to teach CPL/IR? For that is surley the main reason why someone (myself included) would find the american route attractive. However it would seem that several major FTO's are being quite naughty in offering these packages if what you say is true. I had made the naive assumption that there would have been some sort of temporary working visa involved, but i know very little about such things.