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951fan · September 12th, 2005, 18:21

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Well 951,

I do not work in admissions, I am a flight instructor who took the time to go get the numbers from the ONE person who takes care of disenrolling students. Plus, every time a student leaves the school, an email/memo is sent to all group managers (which I am not), and since I work as a Group Leader two days a week, I have access to the information through that channel as well.

Hope this clarifies that I was not pulling numbers out of my empenage.

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Shirt,

Thanks for being upfront, wasn't accusing you of lying, just questioning the figures and who provided them. Were you instructing there in Jan. or Feb.? If so, maybe you (or another CFI here) can confirm the CFI meeting that took place (I think it was Jan.) regarding management's concern of the 26 students/cfis that quit or transferred schools that month. The emphasis was on customer service since that was an unusually high number of people leaving apparently. My instructor told me about it, my 2 roommates instructors talked about it, and we heard our ground school instructor talking about it. Yes, I know, I wasn't there ( I was a student), but it took place, and again, it was 26 (both students & CFIs) that quit or transferred, not the ones taken out of the student pool and put in the CFI group. Yes, I suppose all 4 of those instructors were wrong or misunderstood, but I doubt it. The other question I have is the 500 total student number you mentioned. I was told there were about 250 students when I was attending early this year, and based on the daily flight schedule at DCA, it seems as the number has actually slightly decreased. It looks like about 190 students fly daily there (on avg), so does that mean 200-300 aren't flying? I honestly don't know, maybe the Chinese student figures are much higher than thought and many of them aren't flying daily because they're in ground school? It just seems that if the number of students is around 500, more than 200 would be flying daily. If that is the case, they better be getting more planes, because scheduling one when I was there was sometimes an issue. Unfortunately, if they do get more planes, they'll be temporarily leasing some more jalopies that have different panel layouts (and avionics) than the rest of their fleet, but that's another story for another day.

September 12th, 2005, 18:21	#17
951fan Newbie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 15	Re: Some updates at DCA.... [ QUOTE ] Well 951, I do not work in admissions, I am a flight instructor who took the time to go get the numbers from the ONE person who takes care of disenrolling students. Plus, every time a student leaves the school, an email/memo is sent to all group managers (which I am not), and since I work as a Group Leader two days a week, I have access to the information through that channel as well. Hope this clarifies that I was not pulling numbers out of my empenage. [/ QUOTE ] Shirt, Thanks for being upfront, wasn't accusing you of lying, just questioning the figures and who provided them. Were you instructing there in Jan. or Feb.? If so, maybe you (or another CFI here) can confirm the CFI meeting that took place (I think it was Jan.) regarding management's concern of the 26 students/cfis that quit or transferred schools that month. The emphasis was on customer service since that was an unusually high number of people leaving apparently. My instructor told me about it, my 2 roommates instructors talked about it, and we heard our ground school instructor talking about it. Yes, I know, I wasn't there ( I was a student), but it took place, and again, it was 26 (both students & CFIs) that quit or transferred, not the ones taken out of the student pool and put in the CFI group. Yes, I suppose all 4 of those instructors were wrong or misunderstood, but I doubt it. The other question I have is the 500 total student number you mentioned. I was told there were about 250 students when I was attending early this year, and based on the daily flight schedule at DCA, it seems as the number has actually slightly decreased. It looks like about 190 students fly daily there (on avg), so does that mean 200-300 aren't flying? I honestly don't know, maybe the Chinese student figures are much higher than thought and many of them aren't flying daily because they're in ground school? It just seems that if the number of students is around 500, more than 200 would be flying daily. If that is the case, they better be getting more planes, because scheduling one when I was there was sometimes an issue. Unfortunately, if they do get more planes, they'll be temporarily leasing some more jalopies that have different panel layouts (and avionics) than the rest of their fleet, but that's another story for another day.