We have a bias when it comes to flight training: We think that high-quality training, at all levels, is essential to overall aviation safety. We’ve watched the quality of flight training increase over the last several decades and feel that it has played a role in the decreasing accident rate for all segments of aviation over the same period. Accordingly, we take the quality of commercially available pilot training courses seriously—because those courses are what are used by a substantial percentage of people obtaining ratings.
We are particularly interested in turnkey video courses because of their reasonable pricing, easy availability on numerous platforms and a perceived increase in the willingness of Americans to take their information from videos as opposed to the written word.