TP,
The instructor I referred to left for a well deserved airline job the day after I finished my PPL. He was an hour builder, but believed in doing his best at everything he did. Not all airline wannabe hour building instructors are bad. The good ones get jobs quicker, I've noticed; their attitude shows - as does that of the bad ones! Sometimes life IS fair. The school should have been closed down; I know an instructor who tried to get it closed, and failed. But it's closed now, and the airfield is under new management.
Unfortunately I don't know any good instructors in your area, but someone will, and I'm sure they exist; keep looking.
