FlyRight's Testimonials

Dear Jim,

FlyRight far exceeded my expectations. It was the best training experience I've had to date and FlyRight has all our future business.

From the first phone conversation with Stacey to the last day of training with Gerry - I was impressed with the level of service and quality of instruction. You have every reason to be proud of your staff, your facility, and the outstanding quality of instruction you are providing to us in the aviation community.

And I can't say enough about Gerry - he is by far the best sim/classroom instructor I've ever had. With his incredible depth of experience, both as an operator and a maintainer, he taught me things about systems I'd never heard. His demeanor, both in the classroom and simulator, facilitates learning. His recommended techniques and procedures were well thought out, logical, and transferable. I left FlyRight a much better pilot than when I arrived.

I do intend to complete the survey. I would do it right now but I want to take another look at your checklist (the one area I think you could improve on).

Thanks again for lunch. That was completely unexpected and much appreciated.

Looking forward to seeing you next year.

Steve Nott
Chief Pilot
White Construction Company


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Dear Mr. Hapgood,

Having just finished my recurrent training with FlyRight, I felt compelled to write and express how impressed I was with your facility and the flight training program. I have been in this business for some forty years and have attended many, if not aIl, of the recurrent training facilities (i.e., SimCom, Flight Safety, etc.) and was extremely satisfied with Fly Right. Tom Leahy, Gerry Garner and the rest of your staff have done a most impressive job establishing your program. I highly recommend FlyRight to anyone wishing to obtain recurrent training in the King Air aircrafts.

Thanks again for a wonderful experience. I would also like to thank the staff for going out of their way to accommodate my ever changing schedule. They arrived early and stayed late in an effort to work with my schedule and help me complete the required training.

Please feel free to use my name as a reference to anyone seeking recurrent training. I highly recommend FlyRight.

Sincerely,

Roger A. Smith
ATP BE 1900/300/350/200/100/90
Director of Flight Operations

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Dear Mr. Hapgood:

A few months ago I had attended King Air 90/200 recurrent training at FlyRight's training facility. Having experienced annual training from most of your competitors on the east coast and Texas I was interested in evaluating your program.

Immediately upon enrolling your coordination staff was in contact offering assistance in my travel arrangements saving valuable time and money. On showing up for training I was pleasantly surprised by the appearance of your facility and the efficiency shown during the initial registration process.

Everything looked great and staff was helpful but I could not help but wonder about the quality of training. A few minutes after my instructor began our first classroom session I knew choosing FlyRight was a good choice. Your King Air simulator was as good as the most expensive in the business and blows away the non-motion simulators I've used in the past. Combined with the great instruction and coaching, my simulator sessions exercised my years of King Air experience and provided new ideas on solving common problems. Once all training requirements were met we were even able to work on dealing with those rare life threatening emergencies we hope never to face. On one session we practiced landing on one engine at night with a strong cross wind and 200 feet overcast after shutting down from an engine mechanical failure, a session which proved to be foreshadowing of my near future.

A few short weeks after completing training I departed Tampa Florida in a King Air 200 with the aircraft owner's family on our return to New York. Somewhere over Delaware at FL230 the left engine chip detector flashed followed by a loss of oil pressure. An emergency was declared and the engine shut down. The best airport was reporting winds gusting to 25 knots, ceiling 300 feet overcast, visibility 1 1/2 miles in rain/mist, and of course it was a cross wind. As I began the approach it felt like déjà vu. All procedures were handled so smoothly the passengers were not aware of the problem until after we landed safely.

You challenged me to try FlyRight and made no excuses for your already reasonable prices. I showed up believing this would be just another annual training for the insurance company but found it was time well spent sharpening skills I thought I would never need. FlyRight is the new standard in King Air full motion simulator training.

Millbrook Aviation is a King Air only charter/management firm providing charter and pilot services throughout the northeast. FlyRight is now our only King Air training program.

Yours truly,

Douglas C. Wattoff
President & CEO

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Here's the full email from Pete to the Chief Pilot (Alan) for Landmark Aviation:

Hi Alan,

Just a quick note to add my two cents worth about the training at FlyRight.

The only prior simulator training I have received in the B200 was at SimuFlite. Therefore, SimuFlite is the bench mark for my comments.

I found the simulator at FlyRight to be superior to the one I flew at SimuFlite. The entire training syllabus at FlyRight is operationally based. After all, that is what we do, operate airplanes. I liked having the same instructor for the whole course. Having one classroom instructor and one simulator instructor is ok. But I liked having the same instructor for both. At SimuFlite I never had same instructor, classroom or simulator. It was a different instructor everyday. I did not care at all for that.

The check ride, both oral and simulator, was thorough, honest and straightforward. Again, operationally based.

I left there feeling that I had spent a very productive three days. I learned some new things and relearned some things I had forgotten. We also managed to have some fun in the process.

In summary, if the choice were mine, I would take FlyRight over SimuFlight every time. I would recommend that we stay with FlyRight for B200 training. In all honesty, it was a very enjoyable experience for me.

Regards,

Pete Arnold
Pilot