Canadian flight schools

[marcorivera16]

Hey guys, I m trying to get some information about what are the most important factors aspiring student pilots check before choosing a flight school. I understand that we are facing hard times in aviation and probably not too many people are looking at this now but I will appreciate if some of the student pilots could share their thoughts with me.

Thank you!!

[Caterpillar]

The big one for me was the availability of planes and instructors.

My goal was to finish my full 200 hrs multi IFR in 12 months or less, and I did it mostly because I was able to log multiple flights a day when the weather was good.

[photofly]

Students want a slick but anodyne and content-free website, stuffed full of stock photographs of teenagers with gold stripes on their shoulders smiling in the left seat of a shiny jet.

If you add in some photographs of shiny single engine training planes that the school doesn’t have, sitting on anonymous ramp at a distant airport, that’s good too. Double points if the airplanes have foreign registration.

[Squaretail]

Students want a slick but anodyne and content-free website, stuffed full of stock photographs of teenagers with gold stripes on their shoulders smiling in the left seat of a shiny jet.

If you add in some photographs of shiny single engine training planes that the school doesn’t have, sitting on anonymous ramp at a distant airport, that’s good too. Double points if the airplanes have foreign registration.

Sounds about right. What is with flight schools and terrible websites?

[photofly]

It's all about telling people what you think they want to hear and showing them what you think they want to see, instead of the truth.