Took lessons with about seven different instructors over two years due to schedules and many working for the accumulated logged hours to get their commercial license and move on. Dropped at least $50k with them and had more than 125 hours, many more than normal to solo. Passed my written exam with a lot of self study the first time but could not get them to authorize a solo to proceed nor could I get them to detail the issues as to why not. Seemed a bit of a scam to me because despite possibly hundreds of students, few seemed to be progressing and I very rarely heard of any students doing their solo.
Owners are nice but totally hands off and unaware as is clueless chief flight instructor which is just plain bad business. I tried to switch to BlueLine, also at RDU which is more structured but they won't take FlightGest students which says something to pass on business. Choice is very limited but BlueLine may be the better long term choice for beginners. read more