Flight Safety versus Simi-Flight.
Personally I much prefer Flight Safety. I have attended both and I much prefer the Flight Safety training syllabus. I am surprised from reading that article in your post that the G-IV school is just 21 days. I went to Falcon 900EX school last year at DFW Flight Safety and it was four weeks long with only one weekend day off (as in only one day off period). We had two weeks of classroom work and two weeks of simulator. We were unable to practice in the simulator without an instructor because the simulator was booked 24 hours a day. There were some things that I didn’t like, below is a list.
1. The classroom instructor had just transferred from Phoenix and had NO Falcon 900 flying time. He got his type rating in the sim. He had been a Lear Jet instructor.
2. The classroom instructor just read from the book. He had no in-depth knowledge of the aircraft or it’s systems. (Hell, I can read from the book for god’s sake)
3. We were instructed to place a note on the chapter on Air Conditioning and Pressurization that read ”DO NOT READ”. During the oral portion of the check ride when we were asked about that subject I just showed the examiner this note and you should have seen the expression on his face. (I passed because I did read the chapter and the system is not that complicated.)
4. I have the same problem with all the abbreviations created by Dassault as the author of the article pointed out. (Why can’t one say Altitude Select button instead of ALTSECT, just for an example)
5. The simulator was excellent except for one problem. A very serious problem. With more than a ten-knot crosswind it was impossible to keep the simulator in the runway centerline. Over 20 knots I had trouble keep it on the runway. This is nothing like the airplane.
I realize that when I attended I was in the first full class in the new school. Hopefully things are better now.