Originally Posted by
de727ups
One thing for ATP, it's a known quantity, good and bad.
I can personally say my experience with small flight schools was not on par with the above post. Not even one or two points of it.
Nor mine. Struggles and problems are concurrent with existence, and there is no easy way to avoid them. But I patronized ATP for my multiengine, no complaint. I obtained checkouts from a number of FBOs in order to use airplanes, no complaints. The only thing I ever thought was out of line was when the treasurer of a flying club I was in lost all my deposits out of carelessness. When I reported it as I had proof I had paid they fired him, and my account was corrected. So bad things can happen, but it's the exception, not the rule. A very high percentage of the citizens of the world are honest and well-meaning.