What's up Anthony? Thanks for the kind words. All is going well and we are slammed. Hope college is going good for you.
On the Beech thing. We have certain requirements for it, but I believe it's like 250TT and at least a 2 hour check out. However, the owner has the right to determine if he is comfortable with a particular pilot or not. The Bo is a 1967 with a 265HP engine. It is a very nice plane, but the onlly Bo we have, so yeah, we are going to be picky at times.
All of our instructors here do care and have all been here for at least a year or more (though we will be hiring a couple of more in the next few months, but we already know whom we are hiring).
As far as the bad experience with the instructor thing. That one is probably not here anymore. But we do get passionate about quality instruction and it drives us nuts how crappy the quality of instruction is out there. Especially the larger schools. We are old school style of instruction and could care less if you want to be in a jet in 5 months. Whether you just getting a Private for recreation, or an Instrument, or you want to be a CFI or a bush pilot someday, you get treated the same. If you don't feel you were treated well, ask for a meeting with the Chief Pilot.
We have several GPS units (a mix of 430's, 300's and 155's), we have no 1000's though. We are the best price in town though. Come give us look and see for yourself.
And Anthony keep the sunny side up my friend. Take care and come give us a visit sometime.... Later