Thanks for ur replies folks... I've had a look into ariben as well, it seems to be a good deal for getting heaps of multi time but I got a couple of warnings about that place. What's exactly bad about PEA, any details of what went wrong? would be greatly appreciated...
cheers
7E7

I just wanna tell you that i am a former student of PEA,i have to say that they are really great,they have veru good cfi,they teach you well and its true that you can take J1 visa and work for them as a paid instructor until you gain your FAA ATP.This school is awsome for me,an other good thing about this school is that most of the greek guys i know who were there now fly for Olympic and Aegean,few weeks ago actually aegean hired 15 people,8 of them had both FAA and JAA licences and the other 7 only JAA,4 guys were from PEA,aegean put 5 more people on holding pool until June,i am the second of these 5,PEA student too,the third guy was a CFI for PEA!!!!!!So,for us Greeks,it worked well!!

Phoenix: Lufthansa Beech Bonanza chrashed! One dead!
 

I just got the following information:
Wreckage of missing training plane found near Buckeye
11:48 AM Mountain Standard Time on Thursday, February 2, 2006
Staff and wire reports
A Maricopa County sheriff's crew has discovered the wreckage of a small plane in a remote desert area south of Buckeye. The crew was out searching for an overdue plane.
http://www.jochensweb.gmxhome.de/Bil...foundplane.jpg
3TV
Sheriff's crews discovered the wreckage early this morning.
According to Lt. Paul Chagolla of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, the crashed plane is a Beechcraft Bonanza.
Lufthansa, a German airline with a pilot-training facility in Goodyear, confirmed that the plane was theirs. Only the pilot, a 22-year-old woman, was aboard, Lufthansa officials said.
The airline called the sheriff's office at 6:30 yesterday evening to report that the plane was overdue.
The sheriff's team spotted the wreckage at about 12:30 this morning. They said there was no sign that the pilot survived.
Crews waited until the sun came up to drive out to the crash site.

Very sad news. Condolences to those affected.

Intercockpit's an excellent FTO with an excellent record.

:( KK

As an ATCA graduate from the 90s, I remember those lovely yellow Bonanzas which were a joy to fly. Following is the FAA Prelim.

Condolences to all.

320Driver

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** Report created 2/3/2006 Record 1 **
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 1563A Make/Model: BE33 Description: 33 Debonair, Bonanza (E-24)
Date: 02/01/2006 Time: 2200

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
City: PHOENIX State: AZ Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, WAS THE SUBJECT OF AN ALERT
NOTICE, THE ONE PERSON ON BOARD WAS FATALLY INJURED AND THE WRECKAGE WAS
LOCATED IN MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHOENIX, AZ


INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 1
# Crew: 1 Fat: 1 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:

WEATHER: CLEAR

OTHER DATA

Departed: GOODYEAR, AZ Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: BUCKEYE, AZ Flt Plan: Wx Briefing:
Last Radio Cont:
Last Clearance:

FAA FSDO: SCOTTSDALE, AZ (WP07) Entry date: 02/02/2006

Yeah. Flew that very same plane in 94/95. Very sad indeed. RIP

Here is more...
 

... you can the what the news in PHX say about it:
http://www.azfamily.com/perl/common/...202_midday.wmv

Another very sad event. My condoleances to her family, friends and everyone involved.

I too flew that plane a long time ago.

Not the kind of news you want to hear when you're doing flighttraining yourself in Scottsdale... Condoleances to the relatives.

This is nothing to do with Intercockpit - this was an aircraft from the Lufthansa Flight Training School Bremen

I'm deeply moved and saddened by this tragedy. My condolences to her family, friends and classmates.

Most of us ATCA graduates will always remember our time at GYR as the time of our lives. For this class, however, that memory will be tainted with this terrible accident throughout their professional lives. Very sad indeed.

I echo the sentiments expressed by many colleagues here. I don't remember LH ever losing a pilot trainee in an accident.

Any news on the likely cause of this accident?

my prayers go to her family, her classmates and her friends...sad,very very sad...

Flew the BE33 in ´97


R.I.P

Am about to solo myself soon too and this tragic accident makes me wonder... There's nothing more exciting than flying, but we shall not forget that we are guests up there and thus have to be extra-conscious at all times.

The family has my deepest sympathies on the sudden death of their daughter.

I am at this school right now and I would like to know EXACTLY what your complaints are? I for one have had no problems and would be happy to discuss specifics with anyone.

It is so easy to come on here and slag off a school without going into detail. If you have a legitimate gripe then post it. Just calling them a bunch of cowboys without facts is unhelpful and damaging.

Problems:

Very poor maintenance - have had several bad situations there.
CFI (if it´s still that Lebanese Pr**k) is a scab!!

You must be a very ignorant person to have thought that the JR was the bad guy at PEA. Everyone knows its that he has nothing to do with the horrible stories that you hear about.

I know for a fact many students got screwed at PEA, like one student whose instructor was fired for leaving crumbled paper in the aircraft. That very student was at the end of his commercial course and was paired up with a dopey NEW instructor who had never flown on the Arrow before, and had never had a commercial student before. Student had a very hard time adjusting and was delayed over a month before a new instructor took over and finished the student off successfully.

Or like another student whose instructor was fired because they requested to have their current instructor continue training him through the Multi engine phase but was turned down. This resulted in some arguments with the head office that got the instructor fired, when in reality the instructor had nothing to do with it.

BUT THESE MISHAPS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CFI, BUT IN FACT WITH THAT HORRIBLE PERSON SITTING AT THE DESK NEXT TO HIM.

I wont use his name on this site but his initials are DW, and he is the one who is really running the show back there.

NIGEYBOY
It is so easy to come on here and slag off a school without going into detail. If you have a legitimate gripe then post it. Just calling them a bunch of cowboys without facts is unhelpful and damaging.[/quote]

MY VIEWS:
This is going to be a quick one:
Damaging they :mad: are- to their students.
Why don't you explain to me why 98% of the students in that school are foreigners???? I will tell you why; Because they can't change schools without loosing their J1 visa. Meaning that PEA have got their students grabbed by the balls. If that school was any good don't you think it would at least have a couple of American students??
A lot of students, including my self got ripped off, many times while at that school. I lost a hell of a lot of money because of them.
Ps. On my next post, Chapter 2! I will go more in detail,explaining exactly what a bunch of P:mad: S they are.

I spent one year in pea and I am going back next month. I had a few minor problems like you would expect from any company. I think alot of the problems related to the way CFI's were treated were related to Doug White (who was an a bit of a ****), but he has gone now and the guy in his place is alot better.
The only thing I would say is that whatever you are quoted for the course, you need to add 20% at least. They will tell you 10%. This is the same anywhere you go.
They operate fairly and it is up to you the student how well you do there.

I even paid up front and you should never do that but luckily it paid off for me (getting a discount of $2000, but being made to do a stupid glass cockpit course which cost me $1000 which was a total waste)

Anyway, these moaning bastards are just bitter fools who dont know how to get along in life and think that they can sit back and let everyone else do everything for them.