Now I gotta admit my info is entirely hearsay and a bit crusty. But I heard some major bad things about Ari Ben on another message board for flight schools. I'm not talking just things like slackness of training. I actually hear they took the money of some of the students and just didn't deliver. I don't know how on Earth anyone could get away with that, but someone who posted was in the midst of sueing the school. I also heard some pretty wacked out story about an instructor putting a gun to a students' head....think it was some money affair.
There were plenty of people willing to speak openly against Ari Ben Aviator, but I can't vouch for any one of them so obviously take this with a pinch of salt. Still, all I can say is....if it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.