Well as a comparison - I bought the Jeppesen Instrument Commercial manual and read a chapter per night in my own time. Then when I turned up to the USA I went to the testing centre, paid my $90 and sat the test - which came back as an instant pass at about 90something%. When I did the flight test, along with my licence, logbook and paperwork, this was given to the examiner to examine.
Why is a £1000 "exam" course even needed?
Been there, done that except that I sat the Lasergrade in Norwich
I too knocked off the FAA/IR flight training in 2 weeks and had the oral with the examiner after presenting him with my lasergrade prior to the test.
Not quite sure what your point is: I'm planning to convert to JAA/IR because I don't have access to a N reg over here to fly.
Consequently my hard earned FAA/IR is underused and only gets put into service when I hire in USA.
If you're whittling about £1,000.00 spent (BTW the flyer group didn't pay anything like that sum), that's what has to be done at present:
Roll on a better and simpler JAA/IR but I ain't holding my breath.
8 out of ten equals 80% in one year : a bl**dy good success rate IMHO
BTW my quote was to correct wild innacuracy by someone attempting, I think, to rubbish the brilliant achievement of the vanguard of the Flyer group:
The 'dropout' quote too is wrong: many Flyer members are proceeding at their own pace for the many reasons outlined in my original post.
I really hope this isn't going to degenerate into a characteristically PPRuNe-esque barney about the 'FAA/IR is better than the JAA/IR'
Cusco