Originally Posted by hedges81
If I was the owner of a flying school I would do exactly what OAT are doing, and that is why as a customer I dont want to go there!
Hedges81,
It sounds like what you are saying is that you are an unethical business man. This seems like a logical conclusion to me as your charge against OAT seems to be they are unethical for charging what they do. Apparently the market bears it though so many others conclude differently.
The reason I wrote that you seem to have made your mind up is because you did not seem to say one good thing about them. You did mention the food they served was good, but even that must be a negative since the food cost comes out of their students' pockets. Personally, I didn't think the food was so great, chicken wings, egg rolls, samosas and finger sandwiches are not my idea of an expensive feast. So they expressed what they think are the positive merits of OAT. What did you expect them to talk about? Why you should train at Cabair?
What were you expecting of their airplanes, glass cockpits and leather seats? You can get those on CTC's very expensive modular course if you wish. You mention the logo on the tail. I wasn't aware other schools didn't have logos on their planes! Pardon my incredulity, but is this the stuff you evaluate an FTO for, their livery?
I think the most ridiculous part of your post is the way you think you know what other people were thinking. For example you claim people were told the answer they wanted to hear. How do you know what they wanted to hear? Even if you did read their minds correctly, are you then saying OAT staff lied to them?
You assume OAT has uniforms to create a military environment. Did you ask them if this is the case? Did you ask any students if they felt this was the case having been there for a while? You accuse students of sucking up. How do you know what is in their mind? You even go so far as to make the same accusation against other seminar attendees.
After all of this, you can't see why someone might read your post and come to the conclusion you had your mind made up before you went in? Do you honestly expect us to believe OAT was top of your list until five minutes into the Director's presentation? Did you really make up your mind on a gut instinct after five minutes rather than a side by side comparison of the merits of several FTOs? I think not. Rather I think you had read enough on PPrune to know that you most likely were not going to choose OAT and you went there to hear what you wanted to hear, that what you read on PPrune was all true.
Just for the record, I have not made up my mind where to train yet, but I will most likely choose Modular, maybe at OAT or maybe elsewhere. I do give them a bit more credit than you though.