Did my CFI/CFII with American Flyers when they were still around Hayward, CA. The CFI academy was okay... nothing special. FAA test prep was a joke. We just had some lady, who looked like she was around during the 1906 quake, come in and read every effin question and answer in the test (in MONOTONE!!!!
). Nobody passed with more an a 90... pretty pathetic in my opinion. We all would have been better off just doing self study.
Got my MEI at an FBO and flew around with a friend in his Baron until he met his mins and I got around 200 multi total. Flew that thing everywhere from Alaska to Florida to New York.... ahhh, those were the days!