by Rjmsfire » Tue Feb 08, 2011 12:20 am
One of the important characteristics of a pilot is thorough preparation. Have you completely read the other threads about ggifa? A flying course is very expensive, before you commit such a large sum, please find out the background of your flying school.
I don't like the idea of hand holding or spoon feeding kids, but since you are about to make a most grave mistake, I will give in a little. ggifa in short is a financial disaster. The hundred over students who signed up have found that after having paid their fees, they either didn't get the whole course provided to them or it took the school from 2.5 to 3 years (156 weeks) to provide the whole course. The school had said they will take 60 to 80 weeks to provide the whole CPL/IR/fATPL course. And the 40 or so who completed their course were the lucky ones. They were the initial batches and could escape before the house of cards completely collapsed. The other students basically are now stuck doing nothing in ggifa, having been given some flying hours but not enough to get their CPL. The school owns 13 planes but since January 2010, whenever they have money to buy fuel, only 2 or 3 planes get into the air a day. There are repeated times when there is completely no flying for weeks on end due to either no money to buy fuel or no money to renew airplane insurance. Most experienced instructors have resigned during 2010. The school then hired mostly its own newly graduated students to be their new instructors. Since 2007, the ggifa owners have repeatedly talked about building a permanent campus and hostel. As of today, there is only a campus whose buildings have walls made of flimsy plywood. The 'hostel' is just some normal houses rented from other people and the students stay in rooms with 2, 4 or 6 sharing.
Throw money into ggifa's financial black hole at your peril. You have been warned. If you don't believe, just go to bintulu airport to see for yourself.