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Canadian flight schools
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:00 am
by 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!!
Re: Canadian flight schools
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 7:39 am
by 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.
Re: Canadian flight schools
Posted: Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:24 am
by 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.
Re: Canadian flight schools
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:03 am
by Squaretail
photofly wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:24 am
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?
Re: Canadian flight schools
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:09 am
by 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.