Geez Luke I'd change informants if I were you. If you'd like to refer to my reply
http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/For...ML/009002.html you would have seen that you were completely off-target with that one. Can't comment on Leeds Flying School but I do agree with G-LOST that sometimes blame lies with both parties when a flying course doesn't go as you would like. Rumours are great but you get sick of reading negative slaggings. And I thought you for on would have realised this if your boss had been on the receiving end of so many.
But as with any press, good news isn't always as scandalous.
Surely with you being in the industry you would able to offer advice to your "colleague" as to where he would be best suited for his course.