Originally Posted by
hargreaves99
Premises are irrelevant to a flight school. It's the people that matter.
I'm convinced this attitude is part of the problem with GA in the UK. Look at a golf club or gym patronised by people who have sufficient disposal income for flying and you can see where the money is spent. Try and run a training course in the latest management fad for the same demographic and you need good as new, comfortable, ideally slightly luxurious, facilities. Not because they don't take the course seriously but because otherwise they will think you don't take their training (or golf, or fitness programme) as seriously as they do.
If you're a 17 year old itching to get in the air by hook or by crook, or a military trainee doing as ordered, then a shed with make do and mend facilities isn't an issue. But once you end up running a flying school you have to remember that your students are paying customers and probably used to upmarket facilities. So it is an issue for them. Perhaps it shouldn't be, but it is.