What would you do?
Due to limited budget, I started my ppl in Hungary, did time building in several countries (all eastern european) and completed my cpl/me/ir in Poland. Especially on mep and me-ir add on, I went to cheapest possible school. For Cpl, I went to relatively more expansive school in Poland to learn good. I did not feel that cpl required much more than ppl did. Perhaps this was because I did not learn.
When I asked to instructors for their honest evaluation of my skills, they usually thought I was good. From the other side, I never heard someone ever failed in the schools I have been. I believe not because of perfect training standarts but examiners and schools were like neighbours.
Sometimes there is this impression of students coming from eastern european schools that their performance are not so good. Since Ive never had chance to take training in USA or Western Europe, I really can not compare and can not evaluate my own skills
I talked with some junior flight instructors and they all say when you take the FI course and become FI, you really start to learn flying.
Usually I would consider a flight school within a budget up to 5000-6000 euros however I got some extra money I can spend. I can consider upto 8-9000 euros.
Do you think that FI course is worth spending the extra money and going to a school in western europe? I am considering AFTA in Cork.
I am not from EU, but suprisingly one of the schools I contacted, offered me some hours of instructional work after completing the course with them. They are in eastern europe, they are not cheap-same price with AFTA and my impressions are that they are not better than AFTA.
The schools in my country require at least 200 hours of instructional work for any kind of FI position. This makes me consider the second school seriously.
If you were in my shoes, what would you do?
Go for the AFTA or go for the school which promise instructional work in the contract or just go to cheapest school?
thanks in advance