IanPZ,
Yes, unless your are lucky enough to learn to fly an ultralight where the government doest even know they exist, so you get free lessons and are sent solo in 7 hours. Then you move to France and show an instructor you can fly and he sends you straight off to Orly to do the theory and you end up with a licence. This you bring to the UK, where you are log-book assessed and asked to do the Air Law and Human Performance and Limitations exams and satisfy a FI that you are ready for the GST. You manage to do in <2 hours and off you go to do the GST, in a Chaser, non radio.
