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SunState Aviation claims on its website that their...

SunState Aviation claims on its website that their accelerated program can turn you from aviation newbie to private pilot in just 3-4 weeks. During my time there as an accelerated student I met no one who was on that success curve, and that includes me. I withdrew from SunState a few months ago with over 100 hours of flying and no license to show for it. SunState questioned my aptitude and my commitment to aviation. A clerk from the frontdesk thought it was mature and wise to mimic me to taunt me as I m trying to tell him that I shouldn t be charged with a cancellation fee because I had informed them well ahead of time. One of their instructors tried to provoke me by telling me that I fly as if I ve been flying for only a couple weeks. Not very motivational.
The Chief Instructor is the ever pessimist. I heard more students complain about him than people complain about Lucifer. He s a small little guy that uses a booster seat in the cockpit, but he is seems always big on doubts about students readiness to take their checkride. Once a very proper British gentleman student told a group of us how he chose to prematurely end his pre-checkride flight just as soon as it started because the Chief Instructor was adding stress to an already stressful task by poking at every little thing, even at the expense of his full and undivided attention to managing the cockpit, he thought. That same Chief Instructor told me after he had failed me on my only pre-checkride there that maybe aviation wasn t for me, and suggested I should withdraw.
I talked to the owner a couple times. Both times he pretty much told me that, basically, my lack of success laid squarely on me.
A couple days later I drove 16 hours to Texas to a new school and was trained properly and passed my checkride-----on my first attempt.

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