Thanks Guys.
Sorry I didnt use the search function - First newbie mistake right there!
Medical wise - I hold an ENG1 merchant navy medical, but I know that my weight has been creeping up all career and need to do something sharpish! Everything else is ok, BP etc etc just the BMI is high!!! Plus I know how much better I will feel losing a few stone! This WILL give me the incentive that I need.
I would fancy an intensive course as it fits in with my leave pattern. I just finished my Master Mariners exams during the summer, so learning is still in my mindset so to speak. I do struggle with written exams, I seem to need to put in loads of study time to pass exams, but I certainly have the ambition to get through it.
I do fancy trying to go as far as I can with the flying if I have an aptitude for it, but to start with I would like to do it for fun. You never know it could turn in to a change of career in the future. Would I be right in saying that you need to do a PPL before a CPL? I take it all pilots have to start the same way?
Right now I'm due back at work in January, so maybe set the goals on the weight and reaching the medical standards and then start some flying next leave to try it out.
I will google all the different options, I hadnt thought of Inverness (due to distance) but if it was an intensive course I could justify it I guess. Will google Prestwick now!
Once again thanks Dan, River & Lagentium
regards Richard
