So the flight school that I was chief instructor for mysteriously burned to the ground 2 weeks after I was terminated. Thank goodness I was in DC when that happened or I'm sure I would have gotten blamed for that. That is we're the questions come in to play though.
Here is what I know. The flight school was part 141 and contracted to a college to provide training. The flight school for whatever reason lost there 141 certification after the fire. Now there are about 50+ students out there who were near complete with their training at this 141 school.
I've been getting a lot of phone calls from the students as to what they can do. There are regulations about how much training can be credited from 141 to 141. If you go 61 this means more flights hours that probably weren't budgeted for because they where 141.
Especially the commercial students. One in mind was 12 hours from completing the 141 syllabus. Now to finish 141 elsewhere they would get partial credit for their flight time or need an additional 62 hours to reach the mins for a commercial 61 checkride.
There were multiple students ready for their private checkrides. This was the only flight school for 100's of miles offering training in Diamomd aircraft. Even for them to finish 61 now they'll most likely be faced with an additional 10 hours of training. Five more to get up to speed in a Cessna or Piper and the additional 5 hours of solo time they'll need 61 vs 141.
I don't even want to get into the poor instruments students. So many more requirements to go 61 than 141. Atleast for them if they transfer 141 to 141 they should get up to 17.5 hours credit. Which is only half of what they need to complete.
Some have called the FSDO which has replied there is nothing they can do. Does anyone have any experience with a 141 flight school disappearing and how the students finished? This can't be the first case. Especially in tornado alley or along the coast lines due to hurricanes.
Some of the students are looking for legal advise as well. They picked a flight school that was contracted by their college to provide 141 training. They no longer provide it but are still going to be doing services for the college.
Is the college or the flight school perhaps blinded somehow to make up the difference in extra hours?
Should the FSDO be able to setup some type of waiver for the students to transfer to the other college contracted flight school with 100% credit? They all ready have one in place for the flight schools to accept 100% credit of the college's ground school.
Do you think there is anything that can be done to help these students out is is it just the way the cookie crumbled for this folks?
Here is what I know. The flight school was part 141 and contracted to a college to provide training. The flight school for whatever reason lost there 141 certification after the fire. Now there are about 50+ students out there who were near complete with their training at this 141 school.
I've been getting a lot of phone calls from the students as to what they can do. There are regulations about how much training can be credited from 141 to 141. If you go 61 this means more flights hours that probably weren't budgeted for because they where 141.
Especially the commercial students. One in mind was 12 hours from completing the 141 syllabus. Now to finish 141 elsewhere they would get partial credit for their flight time or need an additional 62 hours to reach the mins for a commercial 61 checkride.
There were multiple students ready for their private checkrides. This was the only flight school for 100's of miles offering training in Diamomd aircraft. Even for them to finish 61 now they'll most likely be faced with an additional 10 hours of training. Five more to get up to speed in a Cessna or Piper and the additional 5 hours of solo time they'll need 61 vs 141.
I don't even want to get into the poor instruments students. So many more requirements to go 61 than 141. Atleast for them if they transfer 141 to 141 they should get up to 17.5 hours credit. Which is only half of what they need to complete.
Some have called the FSDO which has replied there is nothing they can do. Does anyone have any experience with a 141 flight school disappearing and how the students finished? This can't be the first case. Especially in tornado alley or along the coast lines due to hurricanes.
Some of the students are looking for legal advise as well. They picked a flight school that was contracted by their college to provide 141 training. They no longer provide it but are still going to be doing services for the college.
Is the college or the flight school perhaps blinded somehow to make up the difference in extra hours?
Should the FSDO be able to setup some type of waiver for the students to transfer to the other college contracted flight school with 100% credit? They all ready have one in place for the flight schools to accept 100% credit of the college's ground school.
Do you think there is anything that can be done to help these students out is is it just the way the cookie crumbled for this folks?