Alan Mann at Fairoaks is expensive and there is no club atmosphere.
Finally, avoid the little London Transport Flying Club at Fairoaks, (which is open to all comers and not just LT staff). They only have two Warriors, one old the other pre-historic and only two part time instructors, but their prices are as high as anywhere else. Not recommended.
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Broomstickpilot
What you say is generally correct except I think you will find Fairoaks Flight Centre is now under new ownership/management for the very reasons you stated. I beleive new outfit there is called Synergy and they have gone to great effort to try and re-inject some atmosphere into flight centre, I could be wrong. By the way i don't work there or fly there anymore so am not on commission. Also LT flying club only got bad when they had an Aussie CFI who was a bit of a T*@T!, Since then I believe they have made a great effort to sort things out.
Good luck finding a cheap school....
Monkey