I agree with you, de727, about BFI being very busy what with all the general aviation, cargo, business types, celebrity types, helicopters, Blue Angels etc etc all over the place. And all the commercial planes taking off and landing at SeaTac only made the air choppier. All part of the reason why my discovery flight (details of which can be found ad nauseum in another thread. hee hee) was unnecessarily stressful. I mean, after landing, I was weak-kneed and felt like having a brandy and a cigarette. Even law school did not have such an effect on me.

Having said that, however, I think I am a better pilot if I can avoid getting killed while flying in busy airspace. I'll continue to fly out of BFI, but will try the outlying airports just for a change of pace.

I don't know much, if anything, about Galvin. The only comment I heard from a classmate was that it is incredibly expensive, even more expensive than Wings Aloft. Wings does have a lot of different planes from which to choose. And many of them are fairly new. In my class, there were a variety of students from very different backgrounds. Quite a few were like me - established in a profession or job, but would like to learn to fly.