I think its true, you need to draw your own conclusions. I considered going integrated a few years ago and when visiting the modular schools I did not find them any different, same planes, instructors with the same licences, so I decided to go modular. Until this point I was adament on not touching flight training in the US, however most of the opinions on this website are all about what the Airlines want, and to be honest I really don't care about that! What I need is hands on flying since I want to head down the instructor/ ferry pilot/ Business Jet Pilot route. I think I will at least do the IR in the states since 35-40 hours actual handling time in a twin followed by doing the conversion over to JAR is bound to be better than 40 hours on the ground in a sim followed by 15 hours in the Aircraft! Sure thats great for future Airline pilots, but I can't really see how that helps if you see yourself flying single pilot ops or something similar in a few years!