Yea, no axes here either, just wanted to know why people advertising one way before the other by claiming to know its "better" that way (please realise, I never said that the way I did it was the better one, I just explained that it worked for me and others and I'm glad I did it).
Oh and most certainly there are a lot of bad schools around (everywhere in the world) maybe thats where your instructor friends students came from? But if I remember right, we where talking about Bristow here; you can be sure that the quality of training is top notch, also on the FAA side.