I finished at OAA recently.
[Tongue firmly in cheek]
A mixed experience but on the whole it was ok.
Difficult to recommend any other training method as OAA Integrated is the only one I have any experience of.
Why would you be intimidated by your peers - it worries me that you would ask this question.
Yes we were made to do GroundSchool in our Vest & Pants if we forgot our books.
General advice would be to ensure the market has actually picked up before embarking on a costly course. Although saying that, I started in August 2007 and not TOO many people (WWW asside
) could see the writing on the wall.
Yes I start next month but I was on a tagged scheme from the beginning - otherwise I personally would have found the whole course too costly to risk (but that is just me).