 Re: "The Tour"
Hey-
I normally just "lurk" around the boards reading the posts, & have never before posted. But all of this I just had to reply to. The choice you make as to which school you attend is a very important one, for several reasons (I will expound on two). First, is the money issue. All of these schools are interested in your money, period. No matter how nice the marketing department seems to be, they want your business, & therefore your money. No school trains pilots solely out of the goodness of their hearts. Second of all, the choice you make for a school is important for the school's reputation. Let's make this clear, all employers will consider a school's reputation for the quality of their graduates. None will consider a school's reputation for groundskeeping. Could you ever imagine a prospective employer saying "Yes, I've heard of that flight program, they have excellent landscaping, you're hired!" Of course not.
As you might expect, I am a FSI student. I am not knocking any other flight school, as I have never looked at anyone but FSI. In talking to professional pilots, most (but admittedly not all) had heard of FSI, but no working pilot I ever asked ever heard of the others I mentioned to them. Apparently, they hadn't heard about their excellent groundskeeping! I certainly don't mean this post to be derogatory in any way, & I apologize if I come across this way, but I just want people to make good decisions based on good information.
Veronaut
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