I got a mate out here in Oz (Sydney). The price is right but what has been a big shock to him is the standard required for VFR navigation. He trained in Florida something like 9 months ago and got his PPL. Since then he's been doing the ATPL theory. . .What has caught out my mate is that there was a long break between flights and thus his nav standards had fallen. He found that navigating around Sydney (with no GPS) to be a lot harder than he expected with CTA's and other such things to worry about. (+ a lack of VOR's compared to Florida). .So he's happy in that the time he's put in has been doing some challenging navigational exercises and he feels it will stand him in good stead for the CPL training in the UK. Only thing he's a bit disappointed with is he didn't get as many hours as he thought he'd get.