Well let's say our hypothetical student is quite close to me...
I know all the things to look for and to ask about, but what I was actually fishing for were a few ideas/recommendations about some flight schools/FTOs that have a good reputation (I'll settle with acceptable reputation also
).
Any thread I open is quite literally full of replies by people who need some sort of professional counseling/anger management (or both
) and it turns out there's no good school/FTO anywhere in the world.
To sum it all up, the quote I got is by far the cheapest and close to home (accommodation + food = sorted), been there already, so there should be no surprises regarding costs and people (unlike when you go to Spain/States/SA/or wherever and they might bend you over, pants down).
But as I got burned already, it's kinda hard to spend that money without shoppin around...