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Old 19th September 2002 | 17:34
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weasil
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Hi,
I have no direct knowledge of the school you are talking about but I just wanted to offer my two cents worth.

When you are choosing a flight school beware that everyone makes wild promises about the cost and time of training. In my experience there is often not much truth to any of these statements. Your training can be done in a short amount of time no matter where you go ... it all depends on you.. it can also take quite a long time.. also depending on you.

One thing you will find is that every flight school is going to have problems with aircraft being down for maintenance, wx delays etc... so a good thing to check is the number of aircraft compared to the number of students/instructors. One of the pilots I worked with did his training at this school in Oklahoma and I will ask him how he liked it ifyou want to email me privately.

I also hold an AUstralian PPL and can assure you that the CASA system is NOTHING like the FAA system. So keep that in mind also.

Weasil
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