Thank you very much for all your replies and advice. Big Al, I do live near Sheffield (Rotherham) and will look into a trial flight as Worksop is not far at all, cheers.. .. .I am aware that you get what you pay for but I have such a mountain to climb and already have uni debts above £10000 (god bless the British gov't) that any chance to reduce costs and, therefore, qualify quicker is very tempting.