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Old November 25th, 2006, 14:19   #12
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"DE, is that useful enough????"

Much better, learning has taken place...
Your kidding right? You have abused your moderating authority again by deleting my original post. You actually think I would ever take anything you say as "something to learn from"?


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I notice a major difference between Blizzue and ILS's experiences with FSA. Blizzue uses words like "I currently attend" and "I'm currently...". ILS uses words like "I trained at" and "We had...when I went through...".
It makes no difference whether he and I attended at the same time or not. Myself and all of my friends finished the CIME program early and under budget. I think that given I finished the program in the top 5% out of 600 students gives me just a bit more clout than someone who is behind blaming it on WX etc.... I don't care for sniveling babies. Yes, the piper Warriors are early eighties. They are extremely well maintained on a 50 hour progressive MX program and serve their purpose for private and VFR commercial time building. The Seminoles are new fully equipped with HSI, RMI, and dual 430's which are used for the instrument multi training.

I would like to see Blizzue leave FSA after CIME and go to one of your great mom and pop FBO's for his CFI ratings. I gaurantee he would be crawling back for the excellent training and facilities (to include the aircraft) he left behind. I know, because I did my CFI elsewhere (because of wifes job offer) and immediatley ran back to FSA for the CFI through MEI....


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Of course, what it's like now is most important to a newbie asking questions like Gabito's and, like Blizzue said, a personal visit and dialouge with a current student (off the record) is a must. ]
The school is still one of the best in the nation. It is still "NOW" providing excellent training with great customer service. Yes, when you tour you should talk with the students. FSA will tell you to during the tour. I know because I gave the tours when I worked and attended there.


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"There isn't an FBO school out there that will give you the quality training or multi time that FSA will get you"

I totally disagree. Here's a school that I'd use to challenge that statement. http://www.galvinflying.com/GalvinFl...lot%20Training
I have rented A/C at Galvin and flown out of Boeing Field many times. A friend of mine used to instruct there. He is also one of many friends who told me to go to FSA. If I remember correctly, he did not like the amount of "down" time there....

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