Originally Posted by
dr dre
I think the larger schools would have a better chance of surviving in the long term than the smaller ones.
But as an aside, why do so many people denigrate large "sausage factory, cookie cutter etc" flying training schools? The big employers want pilots trained to strict SOP's, who have come through structured, standardised training with a lot of oversight and who all have roughly the same way of thinking and tackling problems. They want a fairly standard product at the end.
What I'd be very wary of is a pilots trained at smaller schools where one instructor could teach radically different methods based on personal preferences to each other and nothing the employers want.
dr dree,
You are part right, part wrong, these days, the output of all schools (with several honourable exception) regardless of size, is distinctly ordinary -- I could say, not entirely facetiously, that "stick and rudder" skills are now optional.
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