If you go to FSI in STL for your Q-400 training AVOID if you possibly can an instructor with the initials T.S. Hopefully, you will get either G.K. or G.D. as your instructors...Both are outstanding, and G.K. has over 3000 hours in the Q and was also a Captain on the airplane...The program is a mess for sure, but those two guys have a 100% pass rate, the same cannot be said for T.S. and this individual hasn't flown anything in the left-seat bigger than a Seminole.