It is truly amazing the way downtown has improved.
I am taking lessons at Bob Jones Academy at GMU right now. I have heard of Carloyn's Flight Academy but I never actually went to look at them. Greenville Aviation was flurrishing for a number of years and then went under when a law suit came up. The original owner now has restarted the school and is building it from scratch. There prices were a little higher, and I found a great flight instructor at BJU. I agree about Columbia!
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Originally Posted by Tiger815  I'm from the area and still have family there. I got my Private at GMU (Carolyn's Flight Academy) many more years ago than I care to remember. Last I checked, Carolyns was still in business, much to my suprise. Not that there was anything wrong with the place, I've just seen a lot of small flight schools like it come and go over the years.
Never thought I'd want to go back, but Greenville has had an incredible recovery since I lived there. Its actuallly very nice to go downtown now. It used to look like Beriut down there with nothing but boarded up storefronts and any growth was out at the malls on the outskirts of town. It is the perfect sized place with nearly all the things you'd want but no so big as to have real traffic headaches. I'd actually like to live a bit closer to the mountains or Lake Hartwell, but there is nothing wrong with Greenville as a place to live.
Now Columbia just sux. Too far from hill or beach to be tolerable and hot as hades in the summer. My brother lives there so I have to go every once in a while. |