King Air 200 Training Facility Recommendation

[exagpilot]

I went to Flight Safetey in ATL, level D sim, great Instructors add up to a First Class facility to go to for initial and recurrent training on the B200!

 

[PowerCurve]

Similar experience to ColKurtz's at Simcom. Nuf said..

 

[Coastin]

I am currently having an issue with Simuflite where they quoted one price then charged another. The training was excellent, but bad business practices spoil the soup.

 

[onthebeach]

My take...

First, yes you do want to go to FSI for the initial. Best training. As far as which location, pick the one that's closest to you. Maybe you can drive and won't have to airline.

Second, after you get the initial at FSI & get a couple of hundred hours in the aircraft, go to SimCom from then on. The training is "good enough" there and vastly cheaper. FSI charges way too much, but hey, when the same guy owns FSI and FSI's biggest customer, EJA (or whatever it's called these days), well, let's just say pricing doesn't have to be "realistic." But, I digress. The money you save the boss by training at SimCom can be put to good use elsewhere, namely giving you a raise.

Last but not least, if you want somebody to jerk the gear for you and break you into flying the King Air, give me a PM and we'll see what we can do.