but you simply have to run the shop differently if you have, say, 200 students rather than 10.
And that's probably the main issue. If you go to a 'sausage factory', with its cheap prices and promise of a three-week PPL, you've got to behave like a sausage, and work to fit the mold.
If you expect personalized content, an atmosphere where everybody knows everybody else and were lots of extra-curricular activities take place, don't go to a 'sausage factory'.
The converstion to a UK isn't to bad. If he has less than 100 hours PIC time he will have to complete all the exams. If over that just the air law I think. And then a test with a FE and a radio test.
That's what I meant. Hardly a straight swap. Essentially you need to do everything all over again except the 45 flying hours.