This story about the guy who paid £6,000 over a year ago and hasn't had a refund worries me slightly. I paid FAB/AGL £6,500 in November 2007 on the understanding that they would have their approvals through by late spring 2008, in the mean time I would do my hours building with them. The approvals never came sadly, but no worries, I did my hours building and moved on to another school, no refund required as I had got the hours I needed and any further money was going to be for the actual training. I finished my training last year and am now an FO with a UK based Turboprop operator. If the guy who allegedly paid the £6,000 is in fact supposed to be me, then, well you've got it wrong. Admittedly I wasn't happy with the smoke and mirrors surrounding the much promised approvals, they never came through and I had to train elsewhere at an increased cost, but I did get the hours that I paid for.
FAB/AGL has some flaws, but they are not major and they are by no means scamming anyone. Least of all me!
My only real gripe lies with the fact that I have been emailing them since August to cancel my membership but they still haven't and I have some fuel that I paid for which was never credited to my account. Oh, and I haven't seen my £710 deposit back yet! Generally though, I was very happy with their service and these problems are to be expected of a new, growing company that is going through a lot of transition.