Some threads here are a good place to start reading, where they do the pro study debate thing to death … 🙂
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131649
The first question is, how much money do you have, are willing to spend and thus can you do the integrated or modular route?
If you produce about £60,000, you can go to Oxford (oxfordaviation,net) or Cabair (cabair.com) or West Australia College do an integrated course and probably have an airline job within two years, all subject to visas and with Oxford, probably having to pay further for a type rating with GECAT in order to secure your first airline job.
Modular is a bit cheaper and there are schools who run PPL/hours building/MEP CPL/IR/MCC back-to-back, so in essence not much removed from an integrated course. There are many more of these. I wouldn’t personally go on anyone’s recommendation because you only do the route once, so no one can really judge whether school A is better than school B on merit alone.
The CAA in the UK produce a list of approved FTOs (Flight Training Organsations) in a things called “standards document 31”. This is regularly updated every month and can be downloaded here:
http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/33/SRG_FCL_APPROVEDFTOS.PDF
I would go through that and start your research on the web. There are contact details, included website addresses, contained within.
But if you wanted to look in my area for schools, I would browse the following websites for a better idea
http://www.flyaft.com (did my theory here)
http://www.aeros.co.uk (this is where Moderator Dean has done his CPL/IR)
http://www.hgfc.co.uk (this is where I’m doing my CPL/IR, smaller airfield without instrument facilities but cheaper and more friendly)
Would this be your first time in the UK? Have you got relatives here, any idea of whereabouts you want to stay? We’ve got quite a rather good, diverse and multicultural population here in the Midlands, so you may get by rather well.
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