This thread is undoubtedly going to degenerate into a slanging match between those who have been trained in the USA (there's nothing wrong with FAA training) and those who have had to train ex-USA trained pilots (FAA training is rubbish).
I have instructed for the USAF, the RAF, a flight school in California, both PPL and Commercial (CAP 509) schools in the UK and The Netherlands. I can say, with no hesitation, that the quality of FAA flight training is the worst that I have ever come across. In over 40 years in the flight training business I have yet to meet a FAA instructor who can actually teach.
Well, we're all entitled to our opinion, aren't we?
[This message has been edited by rolling circle (edited 11 September 1999).]