Cockpit Colin" wrote in message
Are you looking to become a safe, competent pilot, or are you just after
a
licence?


both really, its my new vocation for next year i intend to be one of the
best as a pilot too. but dont wish to be parted with excessive amounts of
cash for poor training at rip off club. want the right training at the
right price but with the ability to do an intensive course so as to get
up
to speed asap and safely

And herein begins a journey as to what constitutes a "one of the best"
pilot. For some, it's the guy who can fly a fully laden 747 under a bridge
whilst inverted, and not crash - for others (like myself) it's about being
the person most likely to bring the aircraft back safely, with no rules
broken - one is mostly about skill - the other mostly about judgement, which
in my opinion, is 100 times as important.

How does one go about finding a school that teaches good judgement? I don't
know. Unfortunately, it's been my observations in aviation that far too many
pilots approach to rick management is "good luck" rather than "good
judgement".

My suggestion would be to focus less on the $$$ and more on the schools
where you can SEE that they take aviation safety seriously (as opposed to
saying the take it seriously, which everyone says that do).