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What can I say about this school, I was simply blown away. WOW.... What a school....
I took the tour on Tuesday around 11:30-12. The tour guide was the director of the school and part owner Jerry Dirkk.
(might have spelled it wrong) Great down to earth guy. When every he started talking about his school he had a big smile on his face, He was not the kind of guy who wanted your money and didn't care about you. The building is only a year and a half years old. It has one $500,000, one 200,000 and 1 or 2 20,000 simulators. A computer room with 12 computers with high speed Internet access. A fleet of 46 aircraft. A few other rooms for ground school and debriefing. A lunch area with vending machines. The school is a lot better then the way I'm describing it, you have to see it for yourself. Jerry asked if I have visited Panam, I told him that I didn't. He had a few good things to say about the school, the only negative thing he said was if your sick or cant fly panam still charges you for the aircraft and the instructor, he said that isn't right. Each aricraft after 100 flying hours gets a full blow inspection. 50% of all students in the right seat direct program dont make it. The tour took about 2- 2 an a half hours. I did not see one unhappy student at the school. It seemed like one big family. Jerry knew all of the students by name and where they were from. He said if you are unhappy with the school he would do any thing to help you out and that his door is always open, which it is by the way, his office is in the front of the building right when you walk in. After talking the tour of westwind and reading all the bad things about Panam I decided not to even bother taking a look at Panam.
I took a few pictures of the schools and Arizona so once I get them developed I'll put them on the site.
The closest apartments are about 3 miles away. In the hot summer its way to hot to ride a bike and to hot to walk so you need a car, which is another expense. It seemed that all the students had one so you would look kinda stupid ridding bike to school everyday. If you want a furnished apartment, it will run you 1,500-1,800 a month. You get a discount because you go to WSA, I'm not sure how much it is, I'm going to call up some apartments in the next few days and see how much they are. A one mile radios around the school looked kinda bad. Some parts of Arizona were really nice, and some parts were like I dont know, nothing to special.
Since I never figured I needed a car and the price for a furnished apartment in my living expenses I have to take some time to make my decision
They have about 10-14 new students a month, I dont understand were these people get the money from, you can only take out 60K in loan.
The school is great, nothing like an FBO. Its like this. Westwind is like the major leagues and my local FBO is like A ball if that.
Is spending an extra 40-50k worth it. Big decision I have to make.
It looks like I'm going to be playing to lottery a bit more offten, I really want to attend the school but just dont have that kind of money.
If anybody knows how to put pics up on the site please tell me how
What can I say about this school, I was simply blown away. WOW.... What a school....
I took the tour on Tuesday around 11:30-12. The tour guide was the director of the school and part owner Jerry Dirkk.
(might have spelled it wrong) Great down to earth guy. When every he started talking about his school he had a big smile on his face, He was not the kind of guy who wanted your money and didn't care about you. The building is only a year and a half years old. It has one $500,000, one 200,000 and 1 or 2 20,000 simulators. A computer room with 12 computers with high speed Internet access. A fleet of 46 aircraft. A few other rooms for ground school and debriefing. A lunch area with vending machines. The school is a lot better then the way I'm describing it, you have to see it for yourself. Jerry asked if I have visited Panam, I told him that I didn't. He had a few good things to say about the school, the only negative thing he said was if your sick or cant fly panam still charges you for the aircraft and the instructor, he said that isn't right. Each aricraft after 100 flying hours gets a full blow inspection. 50% of all students in the right seat direct program dont make it. The tour took about 2- 2 an a half hours. I did not see one unhappy student at the school. It seemed like one big family. Jerry knew all of the students by name and where they were from. He said if you are unhappy with the school he would do any thing to help you out and that his door is always open, which it is by the way, his office is in the front of the building right when you walk in. After talking the tour of westwind and reading all the bad things about Panam I decided not to even bother taking a look at Panam.
I took a few pictures of the schools and Arizona so once I get them developed I'll put them on the site.
The closest apartments are about 3 miles away. In the hot summer its way to hot to ride a bike and to hot to walk so you need a car, which is another expense. It seemed that all the students had one so you would look kinda stupid ridding bike to school everyday. If you want a furnished apartment, it will run you 1,500-1,800 a month. You get a discount because you go to WSA, I'm not sure how much it is, I'm going to call up some apartments in the next few days and see how much they are. A one mile radios around the school looked kinda bad. Some parts of Arizona were really nice, and some parts were like I dont know, nothing to special.
Since I never figured I needed a car and the price for a furnished apartment in my living expenses I have to take some time to make my decision
They have about 10-14 new students a month, I dont understand were these people get the money from, you can only take out 60K in loan.
The school is great, nothing like an FBO. Its like this. Westwind is like the major leagues and my local FBO is like A ball if that.
Is spending an extra 40-50k worth it. Big decision I have to make.
It looks like I'm going to be playing to lottery a bit more offten, I really want to attend the school but just dont have that kind of money.
If anybody knows how to put pics up on the site please tell me how