View Full Version : Rip-Off Britain on Tayside Aviation
Alex Whittingham
9th Jan 2024, 11:44
On the BBC iPlayer Series 15 Episode 31, link here (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001vfpf/rip-off-britain-series-15-31-our-18yearold-home-is-crumbling) from 31:00 minutes in to 38:00 minutes. Another warning not to pay course fees up front (and yet another attempt by the CAA to try and refute their statutory responsibility to ensure ATOs have sufficient funding).
geardown1
9th Jan 2024, 14:49
Feel sorry for the chap. I'd be concerned if I was at Leading Edge too. New accounts up on CompaniesHouse showing a 3 million year-on-year loss and 8.5M of deferred income. As far as I can see it, that's 8.5 million of students money already down the gutter if they go bust and won't be reimbursed. Crazy.
Mind you, I wouldn't have said that Tayside were crooks in the same way that Cabair were, but you never know.
RichardH
10th Jan 2024, 07:48
Morning Phil, I believe Tayside were okay until a change of management? Thanks to Alex posting the link, however "there are none so blind as those who will not see".
Cabair, enjoyed my time instructing there but getting paid was like getting blood out of a stone, fortunately left before its collapse. Have on good authority that one student paid them around £60K the day before they went bankrupt, Cabair management must have known about this so theft/fraud.
Yet despite all the warnings on these forums students or their parents seem willing to part with 30% to 40% upfront payments before they have even had their first lesson (theory or flying), must have more money than sense.
jez d
10th Jan 2024, 08:39
Morning Phil, I believe Tayside were okay until a change of management?
Just for clarification - it was a change of ownership, not just management.
Ah well, there you go. It used to be one of the schools we felt we recommend back in the day. I was Cabair's Chief Pilot at Elstree for a short while and the CAA granted me an interview with coffee the day I left, which they paid for! I was also acquainted with the liquidators and they told me that one of the simulators was spirited away just before the solids hit the you know what.