One of those threads where everyone will say how great the school was where they trained, but no one has any experience of any others to compare it to, I guess.
I'll start!
White Waltham - fantastic flying club, great instructors. PA28s are mostly tidy. Only drawback is that they're not cheap - in my opinion this is more than offset by the genuine club environment, which I still haven't found anywhere else I've been, but your friend's priorities may be different to mine, you haven't given us very much information to go on.
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