Hi Obiwan
I did mine at Thruxton, which is on the edge of Salisbury plain so I'm very familiar with your situation!
I'd echo what others have said and also add a couple of things which helped me a lot.
When I could, I did some extensive training, especially at weekends and did 2 things;
- Book 4,5 or even 6 lessons in a weekend. I learned a lot faster (and it stuck better) when I did intensive work.
- Forget the syllabus and focus on "problem areas". For me, it was landings (I used to dither around 2 inches of the deck - not good in a 22). I remember spending an entire hour just doing this - came out knackered and sweaty but it did the trick.
The other thing I did was to hang around the school even when I couldn't fly because I'd booked the time off work or whatever. I'd then walk through the hangar talking to the engineers, looking at Robbos in maintenance, doing check A and check B for the practice and also learning as much as I could about airfields ops, the duty log, listening to ATC etc etc. This really did help me, not with the flying perhaps, but with the whole "situational awareness" of what I was doing.
Stick with it - and spring it just around the corner!
Cheers