flying school shuts its doors
the "aviation academy of queensland", aaq, at maroochydore airport has shut its doors and the signs have come down, at last.
there will be a few ex students that will be happy with that news.
many thousands of dollars of aspiring young pilots hard earned money was lost to this operator. only this morning one of the ex's told me of the forty nine thousand that he paid up front only to lose the lot.
he has been told that it will cost him twenty more to pursue the case in court. what can you do?. it's hard to put it down to experience.
this company appeared in the past on "the investigators" and a "current affair" over the misuse of students funds yet he was able to keep doing it. it caught up with him so maybe there is a karma.
it must be terrible to start out in this great industry with such a bad feeling in your guts.
the ex proprietor is back in the airforce as a controller at sale i am told.
the new school that is taking over the site is the "aero dynamic flight academy" and is staffed by a great bunch of blokes. ex tata's etc. and now every one has smiles back on their faces, it's good to see.
good luck to them. :) :)
Last edited by imabell; 28th Aug 2002 at 05:00.