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yes I was a student there, also a CFI very briefly as visa expired not long after qualifying, but I finished my CPL IR with Air Orlando at exec as OFT aircraft were constantly going tech and a lot of time was wasted getting back up to speed again, also the instructors there were trying to rape students for extra multi training hours and so would not do productive lessons in order to drag it out! multi is a big thing to get as a CFI as it can be your ticket to the regionals,,,,, people might say I was wrong saying there not needed from a student point of view just wanting to finish,, but I am also now a CFI and MEI myself and so know the in's and out's of teaching twin flying!
I then went on the do my CFI with OFT, (basicly my visa was for there so i had to be seen to be making an effort to fly there even if they were not making an effort with me,,,, again the training was useless, there was no course structure, just random CFI's winging it on a daily basis and so I went across the field to Sunstate to get it done and did the writtans with American Flyers who I have to say are awesome for passing them, they really are the masters.
the above three schools are all very good.
as for my friends been at OFT, its pretty much the same story as me, they all decided to bugger off elsewhere to finish up apart from one who battled through frustrated as hell, but went for the better the devil you know than the one you dont.
yes we are all up there in the flight levels now and its great, and I did get some great initial PPL training at OFT, but this was down to my initial CFI who was a great guy, ex military and knew how to act and get a job done so there was not much interaction needed from management needed then thankfully. apart from the fact I was a cabair student and had paid the course with them and they took forever to wire OFT the training money and so every day I had to have an argument with flight dispatch as to why my account was in the red! and then they would call upstairs to the big bad boss who would say yes its fine hes with cabair let him fly! this went on day after day after day because they hire jobsworths that come and go with the trash and caused unnecessery stress.
my advice to people looking for FAA is either Sunstate at KISM or Air Orlando at Orlando exec! both these schools are very well run and treat the customer as just that, The customer! they will bend over backwards for you.
hope that helps.
p.s. i know the spelling and grammer is crap before someone gets over excited and posts about that too! who ever thought it,, get over yourself and get a beer or get laid.