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maddyandboomer

07/31/13 9:33 AM

#273149 RE: Manti #273148

110 million shares worth of scholarships I tell ya!
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Flyguy

07/31/13 9:36 AM

#273150 RE: Manti #273148

No dont call BS call the company! the way another poster did and confirmed those numbers!
hey did you get this...
http://flighttraining.aopa.org/awardwinners/2012winners.html
or this..

AOPAs Center to Advance the Pilot Community stated, We commend and congratulate you for earning a spot on the 2012 Flight Training Honor Roll. This placed you in the top 50 flight schools in the country. Quasar is proud to be a recipient of such a highly sought after recognition and plans to keep up the pace. AAI being acknowledged as one of the top 50 flight schools in the country shows Quasars determination and commitment to providing top notch flight training. AAI proudly displays this recognition at its operating location.

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Porgie Tirebiter

08/03/13 11:27 AM

#273546 RE: Manti #273148

It depends on how one defines "active student". Here's how it really works at a typical two-bit flight school which is all Quasar has ever been.

Out of all the people who come in for that introductory flight, some small percentage will actually begin taking flying lessons. And that means they come in and rent a C-172 for maybe $125 an hour and pay the instructor maybe $30 an hour. And they pay for one hour at a time.

Out of those that take lessons, a smaller percentage will actually solo. Out of those that solo, a smaller percentage will actually attain a private certificate. A savvy student should be able to get a private ticket for less than $8,000.

Out of all those that get a private ticket, another small percentage will go on to commercial/instrument, then maybe get a CFI and maybe work for the flight school to accumulate hours.

So if someone calls Ms. Vigil and asks how many students Atlantic has, and she glances at the stack of student logbooks on the shelf over there and reports 48... Personally, I have no reason to doubt it.

But the scenario that students walk in and plonk down 60K each and walk out the door with 4 gold stripes on the shoulder leaping into airliner cockpits is a scenario presented strictly for the potential investors in QASP. It has no basis in the real world, where the CFI's sleep in their cars.