Thanks from Jens S. -- Berlin Germany

Dear Air Orlando, Flight instructors and all other employees,

I wanted to thank you all very much for the great opportunity I had to do all of my flight training with your school. I want to use this opportunity to tell other interested flight students – especially from Europe – about my experience.

My goal is to become a professional pilot who would be able to fly US Airplanes but also European Airplanes on a commercial basis.

I started flight training at Air Orlando in August 2008. To become a FAA commercial instrument pilot it took me 12 months. And that includes training at a leisurely pace, and all the hour building for the CP License.

If you want to become a pilot, the key question is how do I find the best flight school for me? For me, the answer was easy.

Several years ago, I was a foreign exchange student at a High school hosted by a wonderful family and they happened to own a flight school. But, at that time of my life, I started to ignore my childhood dream to become a professional pilot, because I thought only very few people in the world are capable of being a pilot. A few years later in Germany, I started to study engineering. After thinking about it I said to myself, why should I do something I don’t like, and this was the beginning when I asked my former host family if I could do flight training with them.

I didn’t know anything about how the competing flight schools differentiate from Air Orlando. But nobody knows unless you experience it and hear other people/students/pilots talk about them.

At Air Orlando Aviation, I experienced a very honest flight school, where they have a great, educated, nice staff, great well maintained late model airplanes, a great flight simulator, and of course the weather is beautiful for learning how to fly. This school is not only a school it also has its own maintenance shop and offers a variety of pilot’s supplies.

I found the pricing of aircraft and instruction at Air Orlando to be very reasonable in comparison to other flight schools in Florida. I also found that Air Orlando included insurance for the pilot without making any additional charges for it, which I do not think other flight schools do. Since of the Dollar-Euro exchange rate is so favorable, I was able to complete my FAA training for a fraction of what the same training would cost in Europe even after factoring in the amounts I am now spending to convert my FAA licenses to JAA licenses.

In round numbers, the total cost of my training will be 40.000,00 Euros from zero knowledge to FAA and JAA Commercial, Instrument and Multi Licenses. I have more than 250 hours of flight time in an airplane. For the JAA licenses I will have to fly at a school that is close by to Air Orlando because Air Orlando does not yet have JAA instructors and examiners.

If you are interested in becoming a professional pilot and would like more information about what I did and what had to been done to fulfill this dream, don’t hesitate to email me (jens.schleinert@gmx.de) or ask me in facebook (http://www.facebook.com/schleinert).

Many Greetings

Jens S. - from Berlin Germany