Originally Posted by
LAfrequentflyer
You are better off at a flight training academy, any academy, than a local FBO. For the most part local FBO are stocked with slacker / crooked CFIs that have no interest in your training. Their main motivation in life is to log another 0.1 hours in their books.
Do yourself a favor. Go with a company, any company, with a proven track record for producing pilots.
The notion that a person shouldn't go from 0 - Commercial pilot w/ instructor ratings in 90 days is DE727s opinion.
There is absolutely no problem with a 90 days pilot. Flight academies that do produce the 90 day pilots do a good job and it only shows how much time is wasted at the local FBO...I mean it takes months to get your PPL.
-LAFF
And that all FBO CFI's are crooked slackers is your opinion. I love the academy I am going to but I had some FBO flight training before I came here. My opinion? For
me the academy is the best way to pursue
my flight training. My opinion on the FBO I went to? Best flight training I ever would have received. The CFI was extremely knowledgeable, had been around the industry for quite some time, practically lived at the FBO, and would bend over backward to help another pilot (especially a student). In fact, of all the FBO CFI's I have met I've only met one that I didn't like.
LAFF I'm sorry but you're going to find lazy time building, money grubbing CFI's everywhere, probably a higher concentration of them at a fast track academy than an FBO contrary to what you would lead everyone to believe.