I have always considered Flight Safety to be the best. The Atlanta Flight Safety is the worst experience I have had at a Flight Safety Training center. I strongly recommend avoiding this center.
At the beginning of simulator training my body clock was dramatically put out of rhythm in order to accommodate other clients. Our simulator training should have been at 6, or 7am, each day. To accommodate other clients they scheduled our first simulator session at 2am. We arrived at 2am, and waited until 3am, and eventually came to the conclusion that the instructor was not going to show. A simulator technician advised us that the simulator was scheduled at 6am. We decided to take a chance that someone might show up for a briefing at 5am. We got no sleep that night. We returned to the Flight Safety building for the briefing at 5am to discover that a different instructor was waiting for us. There had been a schedule change, and we, the customers, were not informed. This event set the trend for the entire week.
Instead of developing techniques and a procedural rhythm required for a new airplane the simulator instructors were giving us “check rides”. They would answer a question with a question. We were treated as if we are their employees rather than customers. Neither instructor assigned preparation guidance for the next day’s simulator training session. I was frequently caught by surprise. The Proline Fusion training was weak. I don’t think that the instructors had a thorough grasp of this avionics system.
This Fight Safety has a Production Line approach to training pilots. The problem is that pilots are not Model T cars. Each pilot is different and has a different background which must be taken into consideration. The rumor is that one of my simulator instructors has more experience driving trucks than he does flying airplanes. I hope he is a better truck driver than he is an instructor. I figure my other instructor for a moody alcoholic, and that’s probably the reason he is no longer flying the one jet he has ever flown.
This Flight Safety center is located in a high crime neighborhood, the worst I have stayed in. I noticed several cars with windows smashed in while I was there. Who would have figured that a neighborhood located at the end of the runways at Atlanta International Airport would turn out to be a bad one! Leave your car home, bring your gun and earplugs.
My advice, don’t pay top dollar for this bottom of the barrel training center.