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A32X
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You're a paying customer forking out the best part of 100K to an organisation that, based on what you said, is incapable of providing their product in a timely manner. If they’re feeding you the line of ‘get used to it, that’s aviation’, that is absolutely outrageous and I’m staggered you’re standing for it.
Training should take 18 months, maybe a bit more to get rated and up to speed at the end. Tack on six months of delays and all that does is delay your career. There’s people who popped out during Covid from the notoriously delay beset school who took years of career stagnation, all because of an inability to do the absolute basics of being a flying school. Get your students in a plane, throw in an instructor, get them flying. If they’re can’t get the staff it sounds like a them problem, and a problem they need to throw the chequebook at.
I agree with you, but they claim the course takes between 20 and 24 months (it’s in the contract), realistically they’re still within that deadline. I’m not defending the school, because as you said we’re customers paying huge amount of money so expecting at least the schedule to be respected is the bare minimum.