Foxcow
screwed
- Joined
- Sep 15, 2004
- Posts
- 343
Hey guys,
just a heads up on this place. STAY AWAY! Weather you are renting or looking for a job, this place is the defininition of crooked.
Instructors:
First of all, all of the instructors are crammed into this room (6'x12')with 4 chairs (8 instructors). There is a computer but we are not allowed internet access, a printer, or a copier. We are required to stay 10 hours a day even though it is raining cats and dogs and the winds are gusting to 45kts. We are only paid $15 per flight hour. I moved down here for a few months to get some good flying in but I didn't think this place was this bad.
Management:
Mismanagement is more like it. There is a trifecta of terror that runs the place. Customers are not treated with respect at all. Even though an aircraft is coming up on an inspection, they urge thier clients to fly anyways because of some made up technicality in some obscure reg. They care for nothing but making sure the hobbs meter is ticking away. Every converstation is a confrontation or a test of your competence.
Aircraft/Mx:
The aircraft are the typical run of the mill training aircraft. 152s, 172s, Warriors, an old Seminole, a few AMD Alarus, and an Arrow. First of all, the FAA instructors rarely see any multi/complex time. The chief instructor usualy hogs it all. They never want you to squwak anything because they just call the MX guys to "repar" it. One aircraft in particular comes to mind (flaps will not retract sometimes). All of the aircraft have at least one piece of equipment broken.
Building/hangar:
Overall, the hangar is in a good location and in pretty good condition but they have 4 cats! Is this a place of business or a zoo? During business hours, the cats are up on the counters, walking/sleeping/sitting on dispatched aircraft clipboards and books. There is cat hair everywhere. It is disgusting.
Stay away from this place. They get most of their business from European students that come over for FAA conversions so they don't know any better. It is a terrible place to rent and a worse place to work.
just a heads up on this place. STAY AWAY! Weather you are renting or looking for a job, this place is the defininition of crooked.
Instructors:
First of all, all of the instructors are crammed into this room (6'x12')with 4 chairs (8 instructors). There is a computer but we are not allowed internet access, a printer, or a copier. We are required to stay 10 hours a day even though it is raining cats and dogs and the winds are gusting to 45kts. We are only paid $15 per flight hour. I moved down here for a few months to get some good flying in but I didn't think this place was this bad.
Management:
Mismanagement is more like it. There is a trifecta of terror that runs the place. Customers are not treated with respect at all. Even though an aircraft is coming up on an inspection, they urge thier clients to fly anyways because of some made up technicality in some obscure reg. They care for nothing but making sure the hobbs meter is ticking away. Every converstation is a confrontation or a test of your competence.
Aircraft/Mx:
The aircraft are the typical run of the mill training aircraft. 152s, 172s, Warriors, an old Seminole, a few AMD Alarus, and an Arrow. First of all, the FAA instructors rarely see any multi/complex time. The chief instructor usualy hogs it all. They never want you to squwak anything because they just call the MX guys to "repar" it. One aircraft in particular comes to mind (flaps will not retract sometimes). All of the aircraft have at least one piece of equipment broken.
Building/hangar:
Overall, the hangar is in a good location and in pretty good condition but they have 4 cats! Is this a place of business or a zoo? During business hours, the cats are up on the counters, walking/sleeping/sitting on dispatched aircraft clipboards and books. There is cat hair everywhere. It is disgusting.
Stay away from this place. They get most of their business from European students that come over for FAA conversions so they don't know any better. It is a terrible place to rent and a worse place to work.
