Rhino25782 - thanks for the info on AAA. did you enjoy your time there? I've been emailing Martin and have given him my dates, so hopefully this means he is booking my lessons in? Any other advice about going out there?
I enjoyed my flying training very much. I've written a longer review on PPRUNE here:
http://www.pprune.org/private-flying...san-diego.html
I don't think Martin is going to book your lessons in. When you arrive at the school, after doing all the paperwork, you will receive an account for the online booking system. If you're lucky, your assigned instructor will have booked some lessons for you already (I was lucky). I don't think there's a way to find out who your instructor is before getting to the school, so this is maybe a little hard to plan ahead. However, if you're on a tight schedule, Martin will understand this and pass that information on to the instructor, I should think. Might be worth stressing that to him in another email?