Any Good Flight Schools in Kissimmee or Orlando for my CFI?

[riddlechick241]

Hi Ya, Just wondering if anyone knew any good flight schools to complete the CFI course. Thank you and any and all info is greatly appreciated....

 

[cforst513]

your name is riddlechick. why not just do it at riddle? if not, daytona also has several flight schools: air america, cloud dancer, and my personal favorite, epic aviation. i dont' know much about kissimmee or orlando. avoid Lynch at all costs, though.

 

[riddlechick241]

I graduated from riddle and really dont want to spend anymore $$$ there. So i plan on moving out to MCO and find a good local FBO to do my CFI

 

[jeff99gr]

Cfi

If your looking a flight school in Kissimmee, try Sunstate Aviation. I went there for CFII and MEI and ended up staying for 9 months. No, training didn't take that long, but ended up instructing there and flew 100 hrs a month. Great school with awsome flight instructors. I got the opportunity to observe many of the other flight schools in the area, and would have to say I was not too impressed. Most of the instructors there are Riddle grads and choose Sunstate over Riddle for a job, I think mainly because the laid back nature of Sunstate. Hope this helps.

 

[gkrangers]

dsfaggdg

 

[dogismycopilot]

Air Orlando Aviation at Executive is a good place to be. It is a different type of operation than sunstate (not a good or a bad thing, just different). It's all part 61, and the chief flight instructor trains all cfi candidates. The pass rate is excellent and the local FSDO loves their candidates. If you treat the training as a full time job, it won't take long and the price will be reasonable. I paid about 1/5 of what I could have paid at Riddle or Communist Air Academy (DCA now?).

Call Brian @....Please PM dogismycopilot for details--we don't want to post actual names here. thanks!

 

[midlifeflyer]

I don't know the specifics of its CFI program, but I flew with Orlando Aviation at Executive while on a vacation trip and found it to be the most sophisticated and professionally-run operation of it's type I've come across yet.

 

[gkrangers]

Air Orlando Aviation at Executive is a good place to be. It is a different type of operation than sunstate (not a good or a bad thing, just different). It's all part 61, and the chief flight instructor trains all cfi candidates. The pass rate is excellent and the local FSDO loves their candidates. If you treat the training as a full time job, it won't take long and the price will be reasonable. I paid about 1/5 of what I could have paid at Riddle or Communist Air Academy (DCA now?).

Call Brian @....Please PM dogismycopilot for details--we don't want to post actual names here. thanks!

Really? So you paid 10k for all your ratings? How did you do that?

If you are gonna Riddle bash, atleast just compare the flight program cost...Forget the whole college part.

 

[Smash312]

Check your PM's.

 

[riddlechick241]

Smash pleas check your PM..thanx

 

[dogismycopilot]

Really? So you paid 10k for all your ratings? How did you do that?

If you are gonna Riddle bash, atleast just compare the flight program cost...Forget the whole college part.

No Riddle bashing intended...their "whole package degree/ratings" program is the best in the country (in my personal opinion). I paid 1/5 of what I would have paid at Riddle for my CFI ratings ONLY. I already had a college education. I feel the CFI training I recieved at Air Orlando was superior to Riddle or DCA simply because I was going to be teaching in a Part 61 environment. I got a lot more individualized attention, and was free to design my own lesson plans and curriculum to meet the requirements of my individual training style.

As a beside, What does the college part have to do with the cost of flight training?

-Dog

 

[FracCapt]

Air Orlando is a great place with great people. I know many of the instructors there, and have done some helicopter flying there. Give them a call....or, better yet, just stop in there and spend some time looking around, looking at the aircraft, and talking to the instructors.

PM if you have any questions....I don't read this forum often.