bedrock, your guidance is much appreciated thank you!

As far as my training goes, I transitioned from round gauges to G1000 for instrument.

I have about 10 hours of IFR time but for some weird reason I was told under 141 that I'm only allowed a maximum of 3 to 10 hours in a FTD and the rest of the rating has to be done in the actual plane which doesn't make sense.

I did go gung-ho and built my own sim at home (four screens, yoke and the works complete with G1000) and I actually learnt the core basics of G1000 (and still learning) on my sim at home and when I got into the plane on my third lesson, I instinctively knew where to find stuff so I guess it has its benefits even if not FAA approved.

Aerosim's catalogue pretty much highlights all questions and I have made a note of questions I intend to ask them when I meet them.

The school was previously owned by Delta Airlines/Comair then bought out by another company so it supposedly is an airline geared school as they have retained Delta's training structure.

Aircraft are:

Cirrus SR20 - 32 planes
Cessna 172S - 12 planes
Piper Seminole - 12 planes
Piper Arrow - 7 planes
Beechcraft King Air C90 - 1 plane

Maintenance is all in-house with their own engineers/mechanics (again retaining Delta's structure).

They are supposedly affiliated with about 15 regional airlines who come and pluck CFIs out of the school even before they reach the required times.

They do a lot of training for Chinese and Taiwanese pilots apparently and these guys get their commercial ratings then go join their own airlines back in their countries.

The other school I'll be visiting is Trax Air (also in Orlando) which is a little smaller so let's see what they have to offer.

If I do decide to make the move it'll probably be sometime in August so perhaps I could get my IFR rating out of the way here in VA and start off there with commercial multi and single add-on thereafter then CFI (as per their courses).