ATPL FI, CFI or an ATPL or CPL Grad or a current student
That's most of us.
Standard advice that has been the mainstream for years:
(1) Don't pay up front.
(2) Go modular not integrated; the integrated product is vastly more expensive for marginal, if any, real benefits.
(3) Always look at the real motives of anybody trying to advise any approach to training.
(4) The coming pilot shortage is fictional and almost entirely hype generated by training providers and their supporters.
You could have missed the specifics about Cabair, and clearly many did, but nobody should really have missed the majority of that mainstream opinion.
I have a lot of sympathy for where the students and now unemployed staff at Cabair have found themselves (rather less for those who stayed on with the new, reborn, and very shortlived new version, who really had every reason to believe that this was a crock), but it really wasn't for lack of fair warning.
My brother feels much the same about his ex-wife! We all told him she was going to f*** his life up, 10 years of unhappy marriage and a hellishly messy divorce later, he apologised to all of us for not listening before.
G