Thanks for the response Captain!
Yeah your plan sounds good. I might 'steal' your plan & do the distance learning with OATS and do the IR with SFT.... I just found out that SFT's distance learning scheme is still in the 'set up' stages and apparently won't be finalised until the end of summer. This to me is another reason to go to OATS coz there system has been around for a couple of years now (right?) so it's safe to assume they've ironed out all the probs with the material that they may have had.
Anyone have any opinions on OATS distance learning package??