some of my lesons were in winds stronger than that!
Surely not
, I think you may mean that sometimes the wind was a stronger 15knots than at other times
it also helped that i bought a new C42 to learn on and my instructor devoted himself to me every day and it only took a few weeks from start to finish.
New C42? You lucky so-and-so!
If you can blitz the training then I'd suggest that you can complete it in the 25 hours or so, but if you're having to do an hour or two every weekend then it will take longer. Where I was able to take a week off & fly every day then I certainly made faster progress.
One piece of hindsight is that I set off on the NPPL(M) journey fully expecting to upgrade to an SSEA rating. imemdiately after the skills test However over time I found I enjoyed the flying (I learnt in a C42), and especially the company of the people at the club where I fly, so for now I'm happy where I am. I guess my advice would be go for the NPPL(M) & see how it goes, worry about other ratings later.