All the best to Andrew, he seemed like a good guy from what little I knew of him. I hope they get a new chief pilot very soon who knows how to take care of things in the proper manner.
In response to an above point:
I am currently training at oft, if you can call it training. The training I am recieving is *How to deal with flight schools 101* which while it will stand me in good stead for my ATPLs CPL etc, it isn't what I paid for! I need to be completing my PPL instead!!
The ground school program here I did not need to take as it covers simple concepts and some points which can be pulled from any basic aviation reading material -This was $1000+ thrown away. The flying instruction was useful at first but now I have a grasp of the plane I need to be flying solo to improve, which oft's instructor seems reluctant to let me do so I need to continue paying dual instruction hours(????!!!!) I don't think so. I expect the attitude of any business to be professional and an aviation TRAINING business should be at the height of good practice, unfortunately some staff members need to be reminded of their postion it seems. Nothing adds up here apart from the fact they want all of your money and they want it now, that is the only point which holds firm here.
Advice for any budding students, know exactly how many hours of what type of flying you need to complete to pass the PPL as oft will book flights for you to complete with a view to 'learning', which are NOT neccessary, also extra ground school sessions which need to be paid for, which are NOT good value by any estimation.