I went there in 97, was satisfied with the training. I got thru from 0 to G3 instructor in exactly a year. Was ok.
But this was as the China Southern were just beginning, the writing was on the wall. Terrible as everyone mentioned ya get shunted, all about money. But back then there were some fantastic instructors who gave a sh@#. Some old school fellas like Roy Thorpe, fantastic bloke.
Hind site coulda saved some cash, and wouldve liked to do in a club environment, hindsite 20 20 eh.
I took 10 years off flying, previously as an instructor outta YMMB for close to 1000 hours. Did some recurrency training for up grade, flew around YMMB for a bit, seen with all the non english speakers flying around, said Im not getting ivolved with this, and went up to Alice, where I work as a charter pilot, with minimal chances of getting hit from a wayward C172.
The point Im making is stay away from the big schools, find and old school instructor like Roy Thorpe and soak up their experience.
MH