Life certainly isn't fair, but putting the 141 schools on some sort of pedestal is absolutely silly and contradictory to the FAA's own standards! Last I checked the PTS were aimed at everyone!
I for one spent 6 months at Florida Tech and left after being forced to perform uncontrolled field entries to utter "flight-team" standards as a PPL as well as holding pattern "correct" entries down to the closest heading degree, realized I was being milked by the instructors for their own PIC time... That, coupled with the fact there were 1000 guys and 6 girls worth looking at that everyone took turns with led me to conclude that 61 training from a retired Eastern Airlines L-1011 check airman was the ideal and more economical way to obtain my ratings. Anyway...
Another interesting point to note that if you go on the FAA's website, only a handful of schools are currently "approved"... The likes of FlightSafety Academy, Florida Tech, ASU, Perdue, etc, don't even show up!!! I guess they haven't paid the DOT their "enrollment fee".
That CFI at Riddle example is brilliant and comical in a really messed-up way...
This is the beginning you watch... next will come the dreaded but long expected airspace user fees and ATC will become privatized and controllers pay will be slashed!
Now I would really love to hear from anyone who actually supports this nonsense!
Last edited by KevSauce; 27th October 2013 at 13:37.