edited accordingly Frank.
However EFT have their students train on Ari's planes.(connection there)
It was an EFT student in an Ari -Ben plane.
They have some sort of parasitic symbiosis
going on likely because of training visa issuing.
Pretty clever actually; "come fly with us on somebody else's airplanes and we'll charge you extra for it.."
It shows at least the willingness to be creative.
In that same line of thought not surprising that he'll do business with the other (in)famous creative thinker...SF.
SF alledgedly denied the FAA insight in his logs on several occasions unless they came up with a warrant.
Pure rumour and speculation surely.