Let me see... sent application, logbook, medical etc off to CAA on the friday. Received letter on the Wednesday (iirc) which was a receipt for the £201 application fee. On friday I was leaving my house for work and bumped into the postman. Just as well as he asked me to sign his book and handed me a padded envelope... containing my new PPL.
So that was Friday to Friday - 5 working days from sending the application off to receiving licence.
However if you're wondering why I paid £201, well that was back in January 1999... bad qeather was around but I managed to squeeze my QXC in (everything else had been done before the christmas). Back then the CAA issued licences for life, not five years as they do now. So I don't have to pay a renewal fee every five years like the JAA PPL bods do... :-)
Last edited by Charlie Zulu; 28th June 2003 at 05:06.