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Old 21st Apr 2015, 08:37
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Well this has now turned into a thread about the Technam twin. This aircraft is operated by numerous FTO's around the world including Aero's in the UK which have trained a lot of people and are considered one of the good ones.

I have been reading the threads on here for years and people will always try to say the UK is the only place you will get quality training. It used to be the USA which was talked about as being inferior in the training. Then the schools in Spain started and suddenly all Spanish pilots were no good. Now the eastern European schools have started offering cheap courses it is these schools getting the same treatment.

Wake up guys, the UK is not the be all and end all for flight training. All foreign schools are not second class compared to the ones in Blighty. I agree that cost should not be the only factor in choosing a school but that works both ways. Just because you are paying over the odds doesn't guarantee quality either.

You need to remember these airliners flying into the UK are being flown by guys who have trained in all the places being derided on here. There are eastern European instructors in UK schools and English instructors in foreign schools.

People are very protective of the UK FTO industry on here and you can see why when here are lots of current and past UK instructors and examiners on here. People will also like to believe that the training they paid double for is some how better then the training the guy sat next to him with an identical piece of paper received for half the cost.

Somewhere like Bartolini is a prime example of a school that has many, many good reviews and happy ex students now flying for airlines around the world but is put down by people who have never trained there and never visited just because it offers a better deal than they may have received. We also have the huge marketing done by the big integrated schools (Ask yourself who is paying for the glossy brochure and those sales people).

In choosing a school go visit, talk to ex and current students, ignore the sales pitch and just take as irrelevant any of the talk about the UK producing skygods.

All the best.
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