Ladies and gentlemen, i am writing this with no malice or indeed any hatred for spanish schools. How is this so?, because i have been training in spain up until recently, if you look at my past threads, i have actually defended training in spain. i have completed my atpls in a spanish school and am now ready to complete, the cpl/ir/me. i am booked on a course at a spanish school ready to start next week. i for one am now going to cancel for the following reasons. Upon me ringing to confirm the start date, for my cpl, i was told not to worry, everything is in place and i am booked on. then was advised that there will be no skills test as the spanish issue a cpl licence on the basis of you just actually completing the course!. now im not going to get into details of schools ect, but i will be investigating further as to find if this is the case or not. I am a uk citizen, who went to spain beacuse of weather , price ect. the schools are generally good, but i have experienced countless problems over the last two years. I have decided to stay in the uk, save up and complete here, even for just my own piece of mind in considering whether airlines will in future have a problem with the way licences/ratings are gained in spain. i have luckily already had permission to complete the cpl in the uk after getting authorisation from the spanish for the uk to be the state of licence issue.
I have learnt the Hard way , if something seems to good to be true, it usually is. The cpl at this particular school is around £2500 cheaper than if you did it in the UK!