Hi guys.
Just wondering if anyone has used them, either for PPL or anything else really. I’m looking at going this summer to do their intensive PPL as it’s a considerable saving, money I can put towards a few lessons back in this UK to get a few hours and convert to UK air space/RT etc.
The website, video and blurb via e-mail are all well and good, just wanted to know if theres anyone on the forum that has first-hand experience.
Cheers
Will Murphy
By: nsteele - 26th May 2006 at 12:23
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Hi Murph
I have flown over at OFT twice in the past three years. I found them to be very friendly and up-beat.
In terms of quality of triaining, i believe them to be average. You must try to find a school where the instructors enjoy teaching, not where they teach to boost their flight time.
Moggy C makes a very valid and ofetn overlooked point, it’s great to get your license in four weeks, but you still have to stay current when you get back home.
Nathan
By: JohnL - 18th May 2006 at 15:09
Lots of info on Pprune, good and Bad (search last 6 – 12 months)
By: Trinny - 17th May 2006 at 13:17
You will hear good and bad things about most schools from different people with an axe to grind in one way or another so feedback from people you don’t know on a forum such as this should not guide you to the exclusion of other checks you might make.
I think that it is fair to say that OFT does not have the greatest reputation at Kissimmee, based on both my own personal contact with them, and on the public-domain documentation surrounding recent accidents involving their aircraft.
My personal view is that you should look elsewhere.
By: Moggy C - 17th May 2006 at 13:13
That’s fine, then the US route is probably for you. I think Yak11Fan went that way, so he may be along with some advice later.
The problem comes when people look at the cost of the PPL alone, and don’t think about it in terms of their first year’s flying.
I guess you’d be unlikely to get a PPL in the UK much under £5,500 these days. But spread out over a year, taking on average one lesson a week, that’s just over £100 per week, and you have flown through the year.
Go to the US and you may get it for (say) half that figure. But you will take just three or four weeks.
All of which means, when you get back to the UK you have 48 weeks of the year left to fill.
Fly once a week for the rest of the year in the UK and your total spend has reached £2,750 for your US training and another five or six thousand for your ongoing flying. Probably around £8,000.
So you see the problem for the cash strapped?
Moggy
By: murph - 17th May 2006 at 13:02
No the budget isn’t right down to the wire there is easily a great amount of flexiability in it.
By: Moggy C - 17th May 2006 at 12:46
You need to tell us more about why you are looking for this financial ‘saving’.
If you have a considerable amount of spare cash washing around to devote to flying, but are looking for a bargain regardless, then this is a good route.
If you are looking for savings because the budget is tight, then it is a huge mistake.
Moggy
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