Aerolink Sabadell Barcelona current student review
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Aerolink Sabadell Barcelona current student review
Disclaimer: this is a personal opinion from me as a student that payed for this school. It's 100% personal.
Pros Summary: the school is real and seems financially stable. Flights happen. People gets their license. Pilots that study/ed here get airline jobs. Diamond fleet is good and nice. Price is the lowest in Barcelona area. Own service team for fleet. Staff works hard.
Cons summary: theory classes are disorganized. Students seem to take long time to finish officials/license. Fleet and FIs seem not enough for the growing student body. Infrastructure is dated (sims/building/projectors). staff seems burned out.
An interesting thing I've noticed: almost all students around 25 years old in ARK do generally well and pass subjects and progress normally at a normal pace.Most 18/19 years old students struggle a lot and lose motivation here. I do think is because how the academy works, how little it pampers you and how much it requires you to be self sufficient. Sometimes it does suck and will get on your nerves no matter what, but ... What can I say, it gives you the license... And for me it's all I really need.
Nevertheless ARK feels like and "old school" academy. At least their rules are oldish. The fleet is not super modern (no glass cockpits), routings are done by hand, classes lack on tech, everything is done on paper. No tablets allowed. Is that really bad? Guess it depends on expectations.
For what I hear or read the school business works similarly: salesmen appeal to your dreams, FIs/teachers tend to be recent licensed pilots some struggle with English or teaching experience, classes are mostly boring/non engaging. In this regard ARK is not very far from that. It's something to consider, but again I don't think it's exclusive of this school.
The worst area would be: Theory Trimesters are not planned to, or do not lead to immediately apply knowledge or prepare you for the official exams. You have to wait a minimum of 6 months to be able to sign up and by then most of your previous knowledge is gone and The officials overlap with the new trimester and it's harder to tackle this. Most students wait until finishing all classes (1 year) to defend the 13 officials which means re studying which delays and makes this process a bit more challenging... Here is where Many students lose motivation, specialty the young ones.
Flying as mentioned is not bad, FIs try to share knowledge, some are better than others naturally... and flights, if not cancelled by weather, happen at an average rate of 2 per week. Good weeks you get 3, bad weeks you get 1. You can fly while doing theories/classes... Some people start flying after the first 30 days on the academy so not bad.
Price is around 20/25k euros LESS than EAS and barnaschool. I attribute the price difference on No "free" ipad, not new sims, no glass cockpits, no fancy tech anywhere, no uniforms and worse classrooms.
I Feel this school is challenging. It requieres strong... very strong mindset, motivation and self responsability as school will rarely provide more than the basics. Again it's an old approach. Am sure there's better (there has to be) You could even sell it as: this school really do prepare for you for the real world cause sometimes you depend on yourself and yourself only.
Pros Summary: the school is real and seems financially stable. Flights happen. People gets their license. Pilots that study/ed here get airline jobs. Diamond fleet is good and nice. Price is the lowest in Barcelona area. Own service team for fleet. Staff works hard.
Cons summary: theory classes are disorganized. Students seem to take long time to finish officials/license. Fleet and FIs seem not enough for the growing student body. Infrastructure is dated (sims/building/projectors). staff seems burned out.
An interesting thing I've noticed: almost all students around 25 years old in ARK do generally well and pass subjects and progress normally at a normal pace.Most 18/19 years old students struggle a lot and lose motivation here. I do think is because how the academy works, how little it pampers you and how much it requires you to be self sufficient. Sometimes it does suck and will get on your nerves no matter what, but ... What can I say, it gives you the license... And for me it's all I really need.
Nevertheless ARK feels like and "old school" academy. At least their rules are oldish. The fleet is not super modern (no glass cockpits), routings are done by hand, classes lack on tech, everything is done on paper. No tablets allowed. Is that really bad? Guess it depends on expectations.
For what I hear or read the school business works similarly: salesmen appeal to your dreams, FIs/teachers tend to be recent licensed pilots some struggle with English or teaching experience, classes are mostly boring/non engaging. In this regard ARK is not very far from that. It's something to consider, but again I don't think it's exclusive of this school.
The worst area would be: Theory Trimesters are not planned to, or do not lead to immediately apply knowledge or prepare you for the official exams. You have to wait a minimum of 6 months to be able to sign up and by then most of your previous knowledge is gone and The officials overlap with the new trimester and it's harder to tackle this. Most students wait until finishing all classes (1 year) to defend the 13 officials which means re studying which delays and makes this process a bit more challenging... Here is where Many students lose motivation, specialty the young ones.
Flying as mentioned is not bad, FIs try to share knowledge, some are better than others naturally... and flights, if not cancelled by weather, happen at an average rate of 2 per week. Good weeks you get 3, bad weeks you get 1. You can fly while doing theories/classes... Some people start flying after the first 30 days on the academy so not bad.
Price is around 20/25k euros LESS than EAS and barnaschool. I attribute the price difference on No "free" ipad, not new sims, no glass cockpits, no fancy tech anywhere, no uniforms and worse classrooms.
I Feel this school is challenging. It requieres strong... very strong mindset, motivation and self responsability as school will rarely provide more than the basics. Again it's an old approach. Am sure there's better (there has to be) You could even sell it as: this school really do prepare for you for the real world cause sometimes you depend on yourself and yourself only.
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...I do think is because how the academy works, how little it pampers you and how much it requires you to be self sufficient...
...The fleet is not super modern (no glass cockpits), routings are done by hand, classes lack on tech, everything is done on paper. No tablets allowed...
...FIs/teachers tend to be recent licensed pilots some struggle with English or teaching experience, classes are mostly boring/non engaging.
...You have to wait a minimum of 6 months to be able to sign up and by then most of your previous knowledge is gone...
...No "free" ipad, not new sims, no glass cockpits, no fancy tech anywhere, no uniforms and worse classrooms...
...It requieres strong... very strong mindset, motivation and self responsability as school will rarely provide more than the basics...
...this school really do prepare for you for the real world cause sometimes you depend on yourself and yourself only.
I have been flying for years in a PTF airline, and my guess is that students from this flight school would have no issue at all during ground class and line training, while the ones with the iPads, the pampering, and so on, are the ones struggling, even after being release. This flight school sounds like the right choice.
And it is even cheaper... cherry on top!
