I'm not talking about jumping ship all over the place ie have one lesson here, a few there, some more elsewhere, but using appropriate schools for different parts of your training. You may find a local school has quite good training & is cheaper for the PPL due not having to live away but may not be geared for CPL level so not a good choice for that stage, another source that's cheaper for hour building, one of the several ATPL theory centres to has to be chosen, somewhere else for CPL may be more efficient....and so on for initial multi, instrument rating, PPL theory if self study isn't right for you and multi crew co-op. Instructor rating too, if you go down that route.
That's not jumping ship. That's choosing the most appropriate or suitable school for the stage at hand. You may well find that a single earby or cheap-ish school does really, really well up to CPL but isn't able to do the IR. Fine, get to the CPL at that place, enjoy the savings in living expenses or fees, and go elsewhere for the IR. Some other school might have work for you once you complete your instructor rating there.
No one school knows everything nor do they all do things the same way. Exposing yourself to other places can broaden your flying skills. It also allows you to meet more people within the industry. You never know who might give you the nod for a job or point you to a word of mouth opening.
Last edited by Tinstaafl; 23rd Apr 2011 at 02:51.