Excellent topic Token Bird.
Very good and helpful comments Scroggs and WWW. Thanks for that!
In addition to what has already been discussed here, what I would like to see is some comments regarding the actual content of the flying during the hour building phase in anticipation of the CPL.
My idea is to achieve ratings during this phase such as a night rating, complex aircraft, multi engine and maybe an IMC.
In addition to this work what would be the most appropriate way of building these hours? Certainly not flying in circles? What I mean is what sort of exercises and/or techniques to perfect?
Should we have an Instructor involved in some of this flying to make sure this phase is conducted the best way? Maybe this could be part of the pprune mentoring scheme?
For example, SFC has an Hour Building Course, which might go towards what I am asking, but the cost is a bit on the high side.
Any comments on this are appreciated.
Thanks