hey onya
Unless the candidate was retarded I can't for the life of me imagine how it could take 4 months for a PPL
While I would love to have finished my P.P.L off in 6 weeks, it wasnt quite the scenario. I had no problem when it came to scheduling aircrafts for flights or instructor delays. I got my solo in 10 days. G.F.P.T took another 3 weeks. Had to do conversion from SuperGrob to Tobago TB10 which took another whole week followed by series of navs to complete the P.P.L. As you can see, a "realistic" approach, taking weather into consideration would be min. 2 months. It depends if farfromoz needs to do a conversion depending on the aircraft he starts off with. then again, he has to sit with the instructor to do his theory portion which would take another week or so.
I have friends (yes, not just 1!!) who took around 8-10 months to finish their P.P.L off with money flowing in their bank accounts. Those are different cases as they were not serious about the whole training in the first place and lingered when it came to taking the flight test and the theory.
I am not sure where you have done your flight training from, but few friends of mine have done their commercial in 10 months, which is fantastic. I really dont know anyone who has been able to kick P.P.L out of the way as short as 6 weeks.
Maybe there is a way......
Richie