carl has 6 full time indian students+ 2 full time american students+ 4 full time international students. and only one full time instructor without MEI. i don't know how is he running his running with only 1 c-172
I can possibly shed some light on this situation, since I am an instructor at Accessible.
The 6 full time Indian students was correct when he posted it. 5 of them have now left, so he is the only one that is remaining in the program.
The two full-time American students is correct as well. They are both my roomates. They do more of their training in the twins though, since they need more multi time. The Indians need like 20 to 25 hours multi to fly the 737 back in India. So there is not as much cross-over there.
The four international students is a bit skewed. While it is true that we have had 4 of them at one time, they are part of the ALPS program at the AFB in Columbus. We give them only 25 hours of flight training max. And in the case of the 4 in question, they had different starting dates, so I only flew with 2 of them at a time. Once the two from Africa left, I started flying with the other ones.
We do have 2 cessna 172's (as seen in the pics). Once and a while one is down for maintenance like 100hrs etc, and then we do have one. Again, I think it is incorrect to say that we only have 1 airplane.
The hardest part of the situation was trying to push the Indians through the flight program. Out of the 6, only 1 was really doing well. He would have finished on time, considering he only had 15 hours to go to finish the private. Some of the others were over 60 hours and had problems soloing. Other are even higher (180+) and can't land in crosswinds greater than 5 knots. This was backing up the program a bit, since the 141 training has to be done per the sylabus, typically day/local flights. They could not do the solo missions, which again made it harder to get things done, especially when the days were short.
Even with these issues, I do believe that I could have finished at least 3-4 of the guys on time... that being around 6 months. Even ATP, which is a very fast school, will take 5-6 months to finish from 0 time. They might say 90 days, but if you look at the * in the corner, it assumes that you have the PPL and the 50 hrs PIC/XR under the belt before you get there. Their private program is 60 days, and it could take a couple of weeks to build up the XR time, so you are looking at 5 -6 months.
The Indians decided to go elsewhere, which is a personal choice and I do not hold it agaist them. I wish them the best in their endeavors.