The dream morphed from training pilots to a dream sold to young pilots with false claims, misleading advertising, slick marketing by clowns wearing four bars (a telecoms saleswoman, a failed CPL pilot and a bathroom salesman who looked like a hairdresser all lead by a self-styled captain (he only holds a JAA CPL with less than 500 hours right seat ‘jet time’) with the sole intention of making pure profits. All paths greased by complicit regulatory authorities and the US higher level management who wanted part of the Hollywood style big success movie.
Edgeworthless, for a period of time let his Florida team do what they did best which was train pilots. Unfortunately, his ego couldn’t take it as it was going too well without him so he returned and as happened several times over the years snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Any PTC staff with talent and morals were underhandedly forced out for cheaper, incompetent, inexperienced morons whose brief was to take as much from the students as possible by any means. This included flouting Quality, Standards and Safety with several breaches of rules and regulations. If you complained, you were transferred to the EXIT slide and the door to your office became the door to the carpark.
Several high flying executives were drafted in from other places to sit on the board, again to give the impression of a sound organisation but after a few months dealing with Edgeworthless’s ego they all walked or ran away, usually laughing.
A management team that grew the company 400% in two years were told they were incompetent and that 'one man and his dog' knew better.
Ask how many Chief Flight Instructors PTC have lost? PTC couldn’t maintain training continuity with such a high turnover of disrespected and disgruntled training staff. No-one with any ability wanted to work for them.....
