Airmed vs Jerez
 

Hi,

i'm going to start studying soon, and i'm wondering which of these two great schools are the best, i mean here which has good intrustions (courses) with experienced instructors, accomodation, life outside the school etc.
If some of people have done their courses there (in any of these two schools), i hope you could let me know any drawbacks and adavantages you figured out about these.

Thank a lot.

Adrien

Jerez is a good place. Excellent ground instruction. I had 4 different flying instructors out there. 1 was good, the other 3 were ****.

Poor after service. They've not contacted me once post training (lots of promises that they'll keep in touch from the very end until you have a job). 3 years later...............

Jerez is a nice place to live, and i really enjoyed my time out there.

Thank you for your reply, but i still lost in my decision,
cause in one hand there is Airmed which seems to be a nice school from there website, a lots of good presentations of the school, the integrated ATPL seems good, and price quite good too...but from Pprune, i don't remember that i've seen any good opinions about this school :ugh: i don't know what the matter there :confused:
In other hand, there is FTE Jerez which is knowledge for a good intructions there etc...but everbody can't afford their price := and personaly i prefer to live in Valencia than Jerez (better environement)....
So i hope somebody there will post a reply telling me that airmed is not as sh:mad:t as everybody said, and that is a good school or at least a normal school....:hmm:

Airmed used to be the best Spain had to offer. I'm talking here 2001/2003. After a reorganisation, there was a ot of cost-cutting, quality deteriorated quickly due to most experienced instructors leaving to for example FTE Jerez.
The good thing is that they still do basic training with aircraft fitted with conventional instruments. This is very important as it is the BASIC of flying. NEVER EVER learn to fly from day one with EFIS/GLASS COCKPIT. I personally hesitate to accept applications from cadets coming from an all-glas-cockpit training environment. They have no clue anymore about the basics like scanning, partial panel, RMI tracking etc. etc. Very sad really.

I don't know what is the deal at the moment, their Head of Training is the ex. Head of Training A340 of Iberia and the Chief Flight instructor is a good, capable and motivated man.
They are also moving the complete academy to a new building this month it seems. Don't know why because their installations were one of the best in Spain if not Europe.

Thank you very much Despegue for you all your information about airmed!:ok:
Firstly, i agree with you that learning to fly shouldn't be with Glass cockpit :=
Yes i've seen too that they are moving their academy...
who knows? may be in order to give a new image of them! I hope!
I just wait for any student there at the moment, to give his opinion of the school today!
Cause i can't stand on informations since 2009 or less.... if i don't have any reply... I will go there soon to seen in live, how are they!
Cause i can't believe that such a school that they used to be before the crisis, is now so much bad...:ugh:
Just wait for futher information...:sad:

choose modular
 

i have some friends who went to fte jerez and pilot training college. they didnt reccomend it, u gonna end up with 250 hours ++ , and if ure not top of the class always and fail on some ir or something like that, u will have hard time coming into airline. and its so overprized, around 80k£.

this is my story, i landed a job 2 months after i was done. i did my training at phoenix east aviation in Florida, and they offer a j1 visa (good for 2 years)
.i got ppl,ir,cpl/me, cfi, cfii , mei. i was finish with my faa cpl after 7 months, and the rest i used on timebuilding and got my instructor certfikates. after 2 years, i have 1200 hours of flying, 500 multi engine. and once i was finish in the states, i went back to my home country Norway, i did my jaa conversion in 4 months. and passed on all first attempts. and now i landed a job in Qatar Airways, i applied in january, and passed their interview in february, and in july i will begin line training.

in america i spent around 70k$ , and in norway i spent around 22k$. compare to fte and other uk schools, this is cheap and much more hours on youre paper. and the training is top of the line with alot of european flight instructors who are well experienced.