These fully residential courses offer the quickest means of qualifying for a Commercial Pilot’s Licence
No they don't, an intelligent techinical background modular pilot can clean up in less time. Especially if they are willing to fudge the solo groundschool crap to include the fact that it will be the third if not the forth time they have look at subjects.
You can knock the technical ATPL subjects off in two months with a month brush up and exams and the none tech in a month and a month brush up and exams.
PLL 3 weeks
Hour build 4 weeks
CPL two weeks
IR if FNPT II 6 weeks
IR in FNPT I 7-10 weeks.
MCC two weeks.
I was just shy of 12 months start to finish while holding down a full time job. I was meeting folk on the brush ups that were only halfway through the residential ground school modual 1 after seeing them on the brush up for mod one whenb coming back for mod 2.
And spice it really doesn't take much to realise that fact when your paying for it yourself and you have an above 100 IQ and your are not taken in by the marketing.
If you are on a scheme go for it paying your own way you have to be bonkers.