i've just completed phase one of the oxford residential groundschool and i'll give you my dubious opinion!!
on the whole the groundschool at oaa is very good. The majority but not all of the instruction is very good to excellent and the place has a very professional feel to it. On the other side of the coin, in terms of exam preparation I have gained a lot more out of the 50 quid i spent on the bristol question banks than the five grand i've spent on the groundschool itself and in my opinion the bristol q banks are an essential purchase as the oxford equivalent is nowhere near as good.
I can't comment on the flight training side of things, but i don't hear the other students who are doing the flying side complaining so it must be pretty good. Again on the flipside the waypoint route is ridiculously overpriced (at least ten thousand pounds more than comparable uk courses and over double the florida price) and when oaa tried to sell it to me their quoted instructor student ratio was 4 to 1. Although i believe it could be as bad as 7 to 1 at certain times.
I'm not for one minute suggesting that any aspect of the training is bad..quite the opposite, but i am suggesting that it is bad value and perhaps why some of the oaa groundschool intructors advise their modular students to go to aeros.
All this of course is just the opinion of a current oaa student. I have no doubt others will disagree with me.
regards.
bdj.