Thanking you
truckflyer, if I wanted to, it would puzzle me too! I've travelled down the self improver route, or what remains of it, alas never put pen to paper in the latter stages of school so took to working any crappy job I could to fund this game all these magnificent years. Unfortunately... Financially I've always found myself right on the arse of the drag curve and leaving this kind of thing to the last minute. C'est la vie!
pilotmike, having a scout round some of these fora, one may be excused for exhibiting some shock on reading that post!
Thinking about Spain, only I don't want to bust the opportunity to catch the back end of a turboprop RHS on its way through all because I didn't take the CPL and IR at the same establishment, therefore causing so much grief and ballache to the screeners that the return isn't worth the effort...
Rgds weather, I thought the IR was supposed to get you flying yourself and your aircraft into rubbish wx! Of course there are limits, but round my part of the country it is very, very rare indeed to find a day that would exclude a deiced, AP fitted twin from taking to the skies IFR. Embedded CBs and bad visibility spring to mind...
Anyway, cheers for the responses.