Thanks all for your replies I feel it may help having previous 27hrs but yes start from scratch again I certainly would not feel upto taking a piper tommy from here EIWF to EGFE Ireland to Wales distance 100nm right now but really I think what will be different now is FSX sim its sooo real,VOR,ADF ,moving maps etc
and you can do all the theory stuff online etc so when I get to the flight school I will have the theory polished and have all the handbooks avionics etc plough thru the theory,so different from 1993 no ipad EFB's then or GPS although it was released in 83 after the Korean Airliner was shot down.