Silver State Helo's Shutdown

[PatrickCPS]

Very poor news for the entire industry. I'm not entirely surprised since everything I ever knew or heard about the company was in poor light, however my condolences go out to those will be in court for the foreseeable future trying to recoup training funds.

[SeanD]

There was a segment on the local news here in LAS last night about this. Some poor guy just moved up here from Missouri and took out that 70k loan. Now he is screwed and pretty much has no place to go.
The man who owns SSH is a known shady character around Vegas. He was also part of a condo project a year ago that took its investors for a ride. They dug a whole, slapped up some concrete and that was it. The lawsuits are still filed but nothing has come of it and that was over a year ago. Good luck to the folks who lost out on this.

[38bat]

Interesting, not sure what there role is but this is from the "parent company" website. "opportunities in which we seek to exercise significant influence over the bankruptcy process for a particular company"

[mxflyer]

Originally Posted by scottyboy75

I should stop posting about this company now it is starting to be evident I hated it and think it hurt the helo industry real bad.

Companies like that hurt the entire aviation industry. After schemes like this and TAB express its hard to believe if somebody is trying to give you quality instruction or just trying to take your money.
After hearing about how SSH in KPVU operated it made me skeptical and cautious when looking for fixed wing training.

I know a few people at SSH. How sad for all those students! It's sucks that some people an be so deceitful that even good people are taken.

It seems like a few winters ago a SSH helo went down in Utah lake. Apparently the instructor and student were landing on the ice, when it gave and they fell through. Global Warming might be a possibility.?.

[mxflyer]

While I was reading these threads one of their commercials was on T.V. (Discovery, I think) I called, no answer.

[Sprint100]

Originally Posted by mxflyer

While I was reading these threads one of their commercials was on T.V. (Discovery, I think) I called, no answer.

Their ad played on ESPN sports radio this morning.

[Velocipede]

Need an eyeopener about the leader of the SSH pack?

www.swiftchopper.com

[MFT1Air]

Originally Posted by BenWlson

I heard back from my brother-in-law after he called his flight instructor. The story is that the Dallas location had a bunch of helicopters out Sunday evening when they all got the call to come back. They put all the helicopters in the hangar, told everyone to pack up their stuff, and changed the locks on the doors.

The only message to the students is that they will be contacted with information when a final decision on the future of the company has been made.

. . .all but one! The one I would've been flying would have been in my garage until I got my money back!

[matador]

I met one of their former instructors over the weekend at the airport. He said that the CFIs had "no idea" that the company was about to close, and he was shocked when it happened. Met one of his students who said that he went to two of the seminars with his wife and even searched the Internet for info but found nothing derogatory about the company so he forked over the $70K... and lost it all.

I wonder if the people in position of authority there, the managers et all could be held culpable in all this?

Silver State was topic of discussion at school the other day. The prof told the class "Never pay up front for training, because you can get to the airport to do the training and find the business you paid the money too gone". She lost $15K to a timebuilding operation once. It's sad that we have to contend with that in the industry.