A student's point of view -
As has already been said - you could get a pretty negative view of CATC from reading this thread - So here's my £0.02s worth as a recent 'product' of CATC. :
The place aint perfect, but it works. From starting at CATC to validating at my unit took 20 months (and I was not the first off my course to validate) - and that is due to the high quality of the training and the insructors (both at CATC and my unit).
PA