They will charge you far more than anywhere else.
You will rarely fly with anyone but a grade 3 instructor.
All their instructors are just trying to build hours.
It will be hard to book aircraft, as priority will be given to international students.
Much of their theory teaching is incorrect.
Very few companies will care about a degree, diploma, etc- they know its a bludge. The extra time a university course takes would be far, far better spent working in the industry building hours.
None of the instructors will have ever worked as something other than an instructor, no charter, no RPT, no surveying, no skydiving, etc. How are they going to train you for a CPL when they have never flown commercially?
They have a bad reputation for producing people with no industry experience. Their CPL graduates are still students.
MANY COMPANIES WON’T EMPLOY OAA GRADUATES FOR THE ABOVE REASONS!!!!!!
My employer stupidly hired one a month ago but laid him off after 5 hours of internal training, he said it was going to take at least 50 hours and a heap of babysitting to get him ready to work for us.
Go to a flying school in the country that also operates charter, etc. Many of them are run by ex-airline pilots. Their pilots generally do both charter and instructing and many of their instructors are “career instructors.” They will quite likely let help you organise charters and even go along as “co-pilot.” Bendigo and Shepparton are good examples.
Hope this helps! 