VFR Transit: When I was there - it was white shirt, black tie, black trousers, and bars were pretty much optional, however, in reality, first day everyone is suited and booted, and then as its coming up to final exams and doing your 3 mock tests, it all goes downhill! Lucky to be clean shaven , let alone in uniform. They aren't going to bite your head off about it.
However - as a student who was signed up for OAA and then went to cabair (for GS only). With Oxford your paying for nice buildings with attractive women working in them. Cabair (Bournemouth) have a fantastic group of groundschool, and if they can get 14 FTP from someone like me then that should be all that needs to be said! I went to pay them a visit (after going to oxford and signing up) and I just realised how with oxford all the extra money was just for the name- not for the teaching quality.
BCFT on the other hand... I was there when they ran their first ATPL GS course - lets just say their pass rates were not anything to shout about... like the saying goes "Don't buy Mk. 1 anything" . I'd let them settle and get an idea about things and sign up for Cabair
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