I don't know where you'll be coming from, but I highly suggest checking out more places for info than just this site. You may also want to try flightinfo.com. I didn't attend spartan, but I know a few who did in the mid to late 90's and they were not happy with the program. Things may very well have changed since those times and I would guess a solid majority of students were not all that happy with the programs at the big pilot factories in the US during those boom years before 9/11. Now that times are definitely leaner for flight schools in the US I'm sure some, if not most, have changed their ways into being a bit more customer friendly- not recruiting with such blatent lies and actually having the staff and airplanes to get students through the programs in the amount of time and for the general price ranges that they advertise under. Get as much info from those who actually have been there, the more recently the better, before making a decision to spend many tens of thousands of US dollars on a program that may or may not be what they say they are (I was burned by Comair and Airman, but have now finally emerged as an EMB captain 5 years after finnishing my ratings). Good luck wherever you land.