Low lying and can flood; hills around are over 1000 ft and circuits 1500 ft, therefore may get more days you can't fly than some other places if low cloud or heavy rain. Prices kept down partly by paying instructors peanuts and overworking them, so tends to be high turnover of low hours, inexperienced instructors. This means some people do OK, some have a hard time due to standard of instruction and/or never getting airborne due to weather. It's a matter of luck. On the whole in aviation you get what you pay for. Read the archives, go and visit, ask around, see what you think. I got my PPL(A) at Welshpool; feel free to e-mail me if you have any more questions.