I wouldnt get too worked up about the cpl, its a bit of a joke really. The IR is the important one. acepilotmurdock - you are very pro ptc, and i know of 2 of the instuctors youre talking about in florida, have flown with them and i agree, they are excellent.
However wait until you do your IR in ireland with ptc - really crappy aircraft, really crappy scheduling ie. getting messed around when you need to get your sim sessions out of the way, but the sim is getting preference to be used for 'assesment' flights. Flying with differant instructors every day all wanting to do things differantly. Ground school being taught by people with 200 hours who dont have a clue - chief ground instructor doesnt even have an IR or an instructor rating. Seriously. The list goes on, youre paying top money for second rate training. Wait until youve been through the whole thing and you see that nobody gets jobs and we'll see if youre still so quick to jump to PTCs defence.