Hello Helen,
Thanks for your post. Can you give me a reference on the 16 hours rule, the IR at Bootle verbally quoted 30 hours as a minimum but it would be a great help to us all if this lower figure exists in writing. I still don't see how NVQ applies to the JAA licence, the NVQ for piloting transport aircraft specifically quoted the CAA CPL IR, can you check?
Its well worth reiterating that the OATS notes were not written by Four Forces they have been under development for a long time and at great expense. As far as I know, and I will probably be corrected on this, the only UK schools producing their own notes for JAA are Oxford, Bristol, PPSC and SFT and certainly the PPSC and Bristol package will have a CBT element, probably on CD ROM rather than web based. All others are based on notes supplied under contract by Four Forces. It is also worth emphasising that not all distance learning courses will be of the same quality, you often get what you pay for. Remember the JAA exam fees are over 700 pounds.