Has
anybody managed to do this beyond the three year validity period?
I have found myself in this situation because the first CPL flying school I went to was a shambles... two training aircraft with one almost permanently 'tech' (In the end it was written off...) and a total lack of regard for individual student 'circumstances'. Furthermore, there was no concept of 'customer service' with a part time instructor that spent half of each lesson contradicting himself - that is when he could be bothered to delight me with his presence...
Anyhow, a good way into this 'CPL' I decided to make a command decision - I couldn't
ever see myself getting through the CPL and IR with this organisation, so I switched to another school.
Things have gone really well, brilliant instructor, a personal approach that takes the individual student's situation into account (work etc.) and a much nicer training aeroplane. Overall it has gone really well.
However... there have been a few minor technical problems with the aeroplane I use at this school and the worst Summer for the past 100 years -
official. I am now at the end of Summer, struggling to get weather that is fit for navigation/170A/testing... I have around fourteen months left on my ATPLs, with an IR to be completed in this time period, too.
I also have to work full time, though work have been very good this Summer...
Overall, I would not be in a position financially or time wise to do the ATPLs again - I am suffering many sleepless nights and depression, as a result of watching my life's work slip away from me... all due to a poor initial flying school selection and a shed load of bad luck with weather and aircraft.
So... is my CPL/IR gone, along with all of my money and sacrifice or do the CAA have a human side?
Anybody?