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Old 23rd Feb 2003, 11:12
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jonathang
 
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I trained at Edinburgh.

I was impressed by how dedicated the Instructors are. I would recommend them.


+’s

Flying from International Airport
Busy Airspace
Get to work between commercial traffic
Lots of practice with RT
Get to speak to speak to the ace Air Traffic Controller’s . They know who they are
Ace Instructors

-‘s

Holding before departure
Orbiting on arrival
IFR traffic getting priority
Travel time to another airfield for circuits.
Rising prices (Thank BAA) grrr

Only you can decide. I loved flying at Edinburgh, Don’t know much about fife other than its where I did my circuit training.

What you have to remember is.

Edinburgh is a Club
Fife if a commercial flight training organization

If I had to do it again, would train at Prestwick, get the best of both worlds. ( As WWW said this would be an example of a Big Airport with ILS and Radar etc, very quiet).

Edinburgh is TACHO Hour so you do pay for taxi time.
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