AVmail: September 2, 2013 »
Charley Valera of FCA Flight Center at KFIT writes: "I own a small flight school with three to five planes in central Massachusetts. It's the kind where everyone is always greeted properly when they walk in, the kind the fosters a large pilot community, not just a pilot's certificate. Otherwise, you'll only watch them leave and their hours dwindle on year two. But we have a major problem. It's not bringing students to finish or the so-called '80 percent drop-out rate.' The problem is the lack of good-quality, enthusiastic CFIs." ... Click through to read the rest of this letter and other mail from AVweb readers. More
