Pan Am Closing Florida Flight School

[CapnVegetto]

Is there a SIMCOM in Miami? I thought the only one was in Orlando. Went to LR-35 recurrent there one year.

 

[acaTerry]

WHAT GIVES?!! They just let go of the center director in DVT!

 

[SWA Aviator]

There is no academy in Miami, just SIMCOM. They are closing the Ft. Pierce location.

Actually there is an Academy in Miami it's full of simulators on 36th street.

 

[FDAFCFI]

which is actually not for any student pilot out there. that is what i was implying. why did i ever decide to post here. good bye.

 

[User546]

WHAT GIVES?!! They just let go of the center director in DVT!

Can you give the name of that person? If not, maybe the initials? I was curious if it was the same one that was there when I atteneded.

 

[acaTerry]

Check PM for initials

 

[wellerdoug]

From what I have heard, PA is doing everything they can to make the transition to DVT as painless/seamless as possible. When it was announced, everyone at the Ft. Pierce campus was given a 10% discount on the remaining portion of their training, whether they decided to move to DVT or not. If someone does not want to move, they are being let out of their contract, and will not be charged the $2000. If they do decide to move, an additional 5% will be knocked off their training. Any instructor that is under contract with the international students is being let out of their contract, so that they can move on to an airline job, and are not being forced to move to DVT. Instructors are being offered jobs at the Pennsylvanial campus if DVT is out of the question. Instructors are being offered "moving assistance" if they do decide to come to DVT.

That is all I know for now...

 

[Av8rPHX]

PanAm claims to prepare you for the airlines... maybe base relocation is now a part of flight training.. getting those 20 yr olds ready for the constant domicile changes when they become 300 hr FO's.

 

[100LL... Again!]

I hope that this means that the hyper-expensive "academy" concept is beginning to die out.

 

[limacharlie]

I hope that this means that the hyper-expensive "academy" concept is beginning to die out.

Oh no... I really doubt that is going to happen.

 

[hmmurdock]

Greetings..

I agree with Poo...Everyone thinking about flying lessons, please think twice about paying 50 to 75 thousand dollars to train for a 18,000 a year job to start. My student loan payments are just above 600 per month. I went to "Conair aka the delta connection academy" and then finished up at Airline training academy. I was in the last class that ASA had hired from ATA before they eventually dissolved the agreement. Then ATA went BK and a lot of students lost everything. Please be careful when choosing a school. I was lucky to have gotten hired prior to 9-11. I am still an FO on the 70 seater and will be for probably another 2 years or so. It is very difficult to make ends meet on regional pay. remember, many of us hired at that time figured we would have moved on by now. Not the case anymore. Think about these things and look far down the road when making career decisions and going into massive amounts of debt you will be paying off forever.

Good luck

 

[SevenDos]

PanAm was pretty beat up after hurricane ?? ahh heck I lost track which one destroyed vero & fort P. I'm sure this didnt help any. Another landmark that was shut down/destroyed by the hurricane was The Black Pearl In Fort Pierce. This place was true class, from the sand pit out front that was used to absord all vomit cause by drinking the skanky tap bear. To the Fosters poster with the Australian on the pink surfboard in the mens room with fecal matter sprayed on it, to the nasty rat dog that was the official mascot of the Aviator/PanAm drinking team from 02 to 04 when I left. Not to mention all the bar brawls I witnessed, usually a mexican and a trailer trash fighting over who looked better sporting a mullet. One aviator drinking team member once even fell into a fight, although he lost pretty quickly and I dragged his drunk, battered ass home in the back of his explorer...... ahh good times good times. What I woudld do to have it all back.

Amen brother. We had quite a team cueboat. Those days will be missed. We started that S**t!

 

[SevenDos]

are they laying instructors off? or shipping everyone of to AZ? Wow Ft.Pierce will not be the same w/o all the chinese student's broken english yelling Papa Alfa on the freq. I guess it will make for easier traing at the aviator. Look to see 6 Duchess' in the pattern at a time.

"Free whon even papa rafa like to go home" is the best I ever heard over the radio. FPR will be a much safer place now. The Aviator is going to take over. Pan Am sucks a fat one!