I'll avoid using names because I just want to get a very important point across and I want all students to make their own choices after being armed with the most and best information available. I tell all my perspective students who are looking for training "The best choice in a flight school you can make is YOUR OWN CHOICE." I've said good-bye to a lot of students this way, but I still fly over 20hrs each week in addition to all the ground instruction I give. We still live in a good country with good people. Putting principles first pays off in the end, and for everybody. If where you are you can't make it with good principles, you need to reevaluate something.
With respects to insuring accountability.
There are three forces in this world.
1. Decency and greed. This drives our everyday choices. Governed only by our own ambitions and desires. The real fundamental of each individual's fabric. With interpersonal relationships you can only hope the other person is driven more by decency than greed.
2. Law. Law can also be decent or greedy. The decent people of this world strive to protect themselves again the greedy. knowing that as a whole they out number the greedy they enact laws to protect each other from the greedy, and from time to time each other. I have a hard time saying that there are greed free people out there, just people who want it less.
3. Influence. Also associated with power. It can be used decently, or greedily. When a person has something another wants that first person is able to exercises influence or power over the other. It could be a mortgage, or their own life.
This is my $50,000 lesson. My first hope was that I was dealing with decent people. They proclaimed certain alliances that impressed me. When that proved to be false, I resulted to the law to bring things back to decency. The thing about the law is that it's more of a deterrent than a fix. Leaving only one final conclusion. To maintain decency I would have to maintain influence. The school had my money (what they wanted), the law makers and enforcers were in office (what they wanted) and the bank had a promisary note (half of what they wanted. The law would ensure the other half over time).
My point. No matter what the school, you can either hope they are decent people, hope the law will be ready to enforce that decency, or make sure that as long as they have something you want, you have something they want (e.i. the money)
I visited a lot of schools with high promises. Funny thing was this. I had the loan money ready to disperse to the school as needed, but for some reason they needed it all now. Hmmm. They were alienated to the idea that I would want to pay a little here and there as things progressed. Further more. I only found one school that had a written refund policy written from a student's stand point, and not the school's.
Where ever you decide, Part 91, Part 141, Mom & Pop, only college buddy. Make sure you are in control of the one thing they want (money) until you have the one thing you want (quality training). Otherwise you have no promise.
With respects to insuring accountability.
There are three forces in this world.
1. Decency and greed. This drives our everyday choices. Governed only by our own ambitions and desires. The real fundamental of each individual's fabric. With interpersonal relationships you can only hope the other person is driven more by decency than greed.
2. Law. Law can also be decent or greedy. The decent people of this world strive to protect themselves again the greedy. knowing that as a whole they out number the greedy they enact laws to protect each other from the greedy, and from time to time each other. I have a hard time saying that there are greed free people out there, just people who want it less.
3. Influence. Also associated with power. It can be used decently, or greedily. When a person has something another wants that first person is able to exercises influence or power over the other. It could be a mortgage, or their own life.
This is my $50,000 lesson. My first hope was that I was dealing with decent people. They proclaimed certain alliances that impressed me. When that proved to be false, I resulted to the law to bring things back to decency. The thing about the law is that it's more of a deterrent than a fix. Leaving only one final conclusion. To maintain decency I would have to maintain influence. The school had my money (what they wanted), the law makers and enforcers were in office (what they wanted) and the bank had a promisary note (half of what they wanted. The law would ensure the other half over time).
My point. No matter what the school, you can either hope they are decent people, hope the law will be ready to enforce that decency, or make sure that as long as they have something you want, you have something they want (e.i. the money)
I visited a lot of schools with high promises. Funny thing was this. I had the loan money ready to disperse to the school as needed, but for some reason they needed it all now. Hmmm. They were alienated to the idea that I would want to pay a little here and there as things progressed. Further more. I only found one school that had a written refund policy written from a student's stand point, and not the school's.
Where ever you decide, Part 91, Part 141, Mom & Pop, only college buddy. Make sure you are in control of the one thing they want (money) until you have the one thing you want (quality training). Otherwise you have no promise.
