Two dozen flight students who attended United’s Aviate Academy (UAA) are suing the school over alleged consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices.
Anyone believing you can go from zero to all those ratings in the promised timeframe needs a serious reality check. Would you want a doctor treating you who had graduated high school 6 years ago? It takes four to five years to complete an electrician apprenticeship.
It’s not the timeframe being too short, Ken. From my experience (e.g. PPL in two months, CFI in one month) it seems completely doable - as long as you have the funds and time to completely dedicate yourself to just flying (barring acft and DPE shortage). And not sure the doctor analogy is relevant, as they can be treating if not by 4th yr med school (7 years from H.S.) certainly by the next (intern) year. And, the flying public essentially has no input what experience the crew has.
One problem during the “aforementioned” timeframe would be getting, and keeping, CFIs due to how quickly CFIs were being vacuumed up during the post-covid hiring bonanza. Regionals then were hiring like crazy if you were approaching ATP / R-ATP mins. That’s what mattered.
Petulant children. I want my airline job right now or I’ll hold my breath and stomp my feet!
Why are the alleged victims being blamed? They seem to have paid up. Where is the promised training?
They paid for training they did not get. They have all rights to sue. That training can be done in a year, the airline I worked for trained several dozen pilots from zero to Dash 8/CRJ rated within 12-14 months.
Its what we seem to be doing now. Remember, the world some people live in has gotten incredibly harsh and brutally outspoken, these days.
A flight-school selling half a cookie for double the price may be qualified for the good deal-making stamp of approval, these days.
For the rest of the world: You promise a certain rating in a certain time-frame or at a certain price, be prepared to be taken to court if that contract is broken. Simple stuff.
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