Miss Aviator,
Yeah OK, changing your nick name was a bit silly I suppose, maybe a more mature response would have been:
How can you justify saying ‘As far as being in a big city, if you want airline that's where you want to train’? Did you get employed with an airline solely on the basis of this?
What proof have you that training new IFR students in busy airspace is better that training them initially on approaches in quiet uncontrolled airspace, and then introducing them to controlled airspace as they become more proficient? Are you an instructor?
Your comment about going to an unfamiliar airport and hiring an aircraft to fly IFR was interesting. I don’t know of any aircraft hirer who would allow an individual to just turn up and fly into the sunset without a check ride first, do you?
After hearing great things about Pro IFR, I initially decided to go to BB to convert my JAR IR to the Canadian equivalent. I left after one day - enough said!
Happy landings!
SP