An acquaintance of mine has a kid at the academy. Evidently the quality of training is pretty good, but the school is very misleading about the timeline. They don’t have enough instructors and the students don’t get to fly very much. They advertise that it’s a fast paced program where you fly hard and quickly gain ratings, but the reality is that you only fly a couple days a week and it is going to take at much longer. The only advantage that the academy possibly provides is the potential for job placement when they eventually get the hours, but the same ratings can be earned quicker flying hard at a local flight school.