I'm one of the smart arses who did both my CPL and IR on minimum training.
However I partialled my CPL skills test on an unlucky cockup, but passed the retest with no additional training (chuh a mere £600 extra then!)
Despite this I also completely agree with what Aces Low has to say here. It fairly represents my experience of modular training.
At the risk of repeating what he has said, his point...
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Clive Hughes in his excellent book on getting a commercial pilots licence reckons that you can get a CPL/IR in about a year for £20000. Maybe you can…but you would need to be extremely lucky, hard working and talented. Two out of three would not be enough.
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...sums it all up nicely. You can also substitute 'Clive Hughes in his excellent book' for 'those schools offering ab initio modular training at around £30,000' for exactly the same reasons.
Cheers!
foggy. (who was merely fairly lucky, hard working and moderately talented, and got his modular fATPL for £45,000)
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