Hi,
I am still at Bartolini in February, if you have any questions let me know. I started the PPL course in August, and except for maybe 1 guy, nobody from this class will finish before the christmas holidays and have to come back in February, making it hard for the new PPL class to fly. I think this is due to bad organisation of the school at this moment.
A lot of hour builders, other outsiders, a shortage of instructors, a shortage of daylight, aircraft maintenance and bad weather make it very difficult to reserve slots to fly right now. Within my class there are guys switching schools to finish their PPL asap.