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Originally Posted by Gabito  I am planning to study aviation, and I am considering the following academies : Pan Am, Regional Airlines and FlightSafety. I will appreciate if somebody who has passed through this experience can give me an opinion about these academies.
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I, as well as most of my friends who went through FSA completed the CIME program in 7-9 months. If you want to fly 5 missions a week, it is very easy to do. We had 600 students there when I went through and my instructor always had 6 students. Getting scheduled is not a problem. Sometimes I would fly 2 missions a day.
FSA has one of the best programs out there. If you want to get hired by a regional fast you are going to need good multi engine time behind you. Make sure you look for a school that has a good multi program where you can build the ME time. At FSA you will do the last three steps of the program in the twin to include your instrument rating. As an instructor there you can expect to have approx 400 hours of multi by the time you hit 1100 total time. Most of the instructors when I was there were getting hired at 800TT/300ME.
I trained at Safety and two small FBO's. There isn't an FBO school out there that will give you the quality training or multi time that FSA will get you. Maybe another larger school like ATP, Embry Riddle or UND, but not a mom and pop FBO.....
Good luck,
PM me if you want and we'll chat...
DE, is that useful enough????
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