I ws in your position about 2 years ago, I decided to go to Oxford, would I do it again? Don't know. Ground school is excellent, just look at some of the posts Paul Hickley put on PPrune. Theirs a man thats knows his stuff and can teach it, he got me 98% in gen nav.
The flying was split story, apart from the weather, their was the occasion when the aircraft were taken off self - sponsored for sponsored students. When it came to doing flying exams we had to eats the crumbs off the floor.
Apart from these managerial aspects, the flying instructors are excellent, absolutly fantasic, they REALLY do care about getting the self sponsored students through, they were once like us, paying their own way.
If you have any flying experience already you will get an hours reduction, I think the maximum can be 50% of your experience or 40hrs which ever is the less. with no dispensation for instrument flying.
hope this helps.
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