You have your impressions and I have mine Irishrover.
Pointless getting into drawn out debates these days because it's a long time ago now and things have changed completely hence the reason I'm not so reticent to shroud my views because there is little point in doing so. Some people just have difficulty in understanding that students often have very little control over their destiny once they commit to training and I've been on both sides of the fence. Whilst doing my CPL I found myself sat around the dinner table one night with five students who hated the FTO we were at. I on the other hand found the FTO to be brilliant so it only goes to show...
Took six and passed three ATPL's in Jerez and never ran to a second time around as you assume. I walked whilst I still had my 5 sittings left and sailed through at BGS a few months later. Granted I had a break but shall we compare the BGS notes to the Four Forces notes or the bits of scribbled paper I managed to emerge from the classes at Jerez with? Hmmm..... best not.
Suffice to say that many students felt the same way when I was at Jerez and only one or two had the courage to stand up and say something or even better
do something about the bad situation. The fact they sacked probably the most competant and amiable guy in the groundschool was proof of the management's unbelievable arrogance around that time. Who is laughing now?
One mans heaven can be another mans hell. Such is life.
VFE.
PS: Moggiee.
