Well im only back a matter of days from an FAA IR conversion that is quoted to take 2 weeks. It took me 1 month!!!
School is very impressive with decent instructors. Sim is good but is based on aerodynamics Jet that they do type rating on and is nothing like the Dutchess or Seneca. All went fine during the sim and then i moved on to the 7 hours flying.
When u do fly it is usually to ferry the aircraft to and from the maintenance field. Or in my case to pick it up from maintenance and then to collect 2 students who were stranded in seville as the dutchess broke. Collected them and guess what?? engine failed in the seneca during run ups. Turned out the Seneca engine was bunched and was out of service indefinatly. No flying for 6 days, then all the seneca pilots were put in the dutchess. Now there were 12 people flying that and it goes down for 50 hr check...
So you can get the jist of it. Had endless meetings with the director of the company telling him I want the extra accomodation and car rental paid for as i had to extend my stay. He says NO. I then asked why he wont lease in an aircraft to clear the backlog, he said its not "Financially Viable" for the company.
I eventually finished after 4 weeks there and had more days of no flying than I did flying. The two aircraft are old and clapped out and forever in maintenance. In short you get what you pay for with them and the school is decent enough but have NO backup plan when things go wrong with the aircraft. I only finished when i did because i ended up screaming at the director of the company and I really had to fight to be put at the top of the list. There are other guys still there sitting in hotel rooms whom i was training with. The seneca is still broken and the dutchess flys so much now its having its 50 & 100 hr checks every few days??