In my humble opinion
Wishlist for a good flight school.
Not necessarly in this order.
1: A school that does not try to squeeze every penny from the customer, discounts to good customers, if I was to spend the type of money spent on flight training any where else, I would be treated like a king and deservedly so!
2: Good ground facilities to study and reference materials to learn from and a couple of Computers for practicing FAA knowledge tests.
3: A couple of old hands who know there stuff through experience and not just from books
4: CFI's without ego's and opinions of themselves and not necessaraly there just to build hours.
5: Florida can be good becasue of the weather but the flat featureless terrain doesn't make it a particuarly nice place to fly around, somewhere with a bit of scenery would be ideal and a bit of Altitude makes a big big difference.
6: When your training is finished, a bit more then a pat on the back and a "Good luck with the job hunting, I hear its tuff out there at the moment, but hopefully it will pick up soon"
a few good leads or a word thrown in here or there to other operators would not go astray, in fact this is very high up on the list.
And if a school does not do this, it should not advertise that it does.
I could go on at this for quite a while as more spring to mind!!
Last edited by Watchoutbelow; 14th December 2003 at 23:55.