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    Non-Availibility lodging/letter

    in General Discussion

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    You checked for availability and there was none. You only have to check once.

    You can self-certify non-a but most folks will give you the hairy eyeball.

    Talk to the lodging manager and get him to print you out a non-a. The worker bee at the desk prolly doesn't have the leeway or authority to do it.

    Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) Certificate

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    Gents, just finished up with crazy Carl nuzzo at accessible aviation in columbus and wanted to pass along a review for those weighing their options.

    To their credit, they did squeeze us in despite the rush and backlog and we >DID< receive the training and experience we needed.

    The accommodations were marginally acceptable. I stayed at his house which is standard. I was upstairs in a detached separate area. There is also a few bedrooms in a townhouse on the other side of town (think college living).

    The company and organization were atrocious and at times infuriating. Despite a rather large sum of money changing hands, I was never treated as a paying customer, and often treated as a hindrance. The training program was sloppy, disorganized, and never punctual. Maintenance wants drove some training directives (ie "we simulate that in training so we don't wear out that boost pump", "don't actually retract the gear on the stall recovery to save wear on the hydraulic pump","don't turn on the strobes, we don't want to run out of blinker fluid"). They were very concerned that "damn students" would booger up a brand new interior. Training materials and "checklists" were cobbled together and Inconsistent.

    Execution was maddening as well. In some cases people that walked talked and flew as CFIs were in actuality just a safety observer since those folks didn't actually posses the hours or ticket to be a CFI. Safety observers/CFIs were often on their phones...airborne, mid brief, mid academics, and mid conversation. Nothing happened on time or as planned.

    There were some other folks that had arrived a few days earlier and updated us on the situation and managed our expectations.

    With all of that said, however, I >>HIGHLY<< recommend accessible aviation for your ATP.

    Happy to answer questions.

    New SOS in-correspondence

    in General Discussion

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    I am certainly not defending practice bleeding, but one of the reasons to do IDE and SDE in correspondence, even as a select, was to be more competitive for a NON-Maxwell residence program (go to a real university, naval post grad, foreign IDE/SDE, etc).

    Obviously not applicable to SOS.

    Washington DC

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted · Edited by HossHarris

    Everywhere in md sucks, but directly around andrews is especially bad.

    You can live near old town without being in it. Lots of "suburbs". Just make sure you're east of 95/395 and as close (north/south) to 495 as possible or you can get quickly out of the traffic counterflow sweet spot.

    Consider around van dorn and what used to be Cameron station. Lots of single family homes of various ages and expenses.

    Old town is 5 to 3 girls to guys as well, so not a bad joint if you're single or into a little strange on the side.

    Like most of NoVA, lots if fuzzy foreigners and 1st gen Americans.

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