you need to get some stick time in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD9ZggRJ1QA
That was my training area while an instructor.
And the aircraft/route in that film was my job also.
Florida is ****e.
If your going to learn to fly you only get to do it once, do it properly in somewhere your going to remember. Not some sweaty flat ****e hole.
With the budget of 14k euros he could train in Scotland buy a bike to get around on. Stay in a decent BnB or rent a holiday cottage out of season for a month near the airport. Or live in town and get the bus.
And its got the additional advantage that the beer isn't watery piss.
And if he wants to take a break for a week he can go travelling and see something decent which he will remember for the rest of his life.
In Inverness his QXC would be up to wick and Kirkwall in the Orkneys. PPL's pay thousands of euros to do that trip from all over Europe.
What was your QXC, keystone, Naples and back home? So Rednecks a nothing special airport and flat boring farm land with the occasional freeway going across it.
Found a video of flying FL I had obviously blocked out the memory of all the trailer parks.
http://youtu.be/dZIl1HzM83I
you will notice they edited out the cruise section. Because its just mile after mile of exactly the same thing.
http://youtu.be/R05a6bdBgw8
Spot the difference.
http://youtu.be/8f46HHz_PQM
Spent years looking at that view never got bored of it.