FlightSafety International reviews

No quality of life. They can work you 12 days in a row doing what they call doubles which puts you on the property over 10 hours or more. There are no guaranteed days off unless you are on vacation. Schedule changes all the time. Poor training. Basically you train yourself. Do not sign a training agreement unless there are prorations and relief for illness. As my attorney told me they got you! It's like a mortgage. If you get sick and can't work the mortgage still has to be paid. They are ruthless. They don't care about you or your family. At the PIC training one of the VP's tells you if let a client out one minute before the end of training you could be charged with defrauding the company. Can't find any instructor that likes this place. They are there for the benefits. They are always complaining. No sour grapes here. Had I known what I was getting into I would never have signed up. I am a veteran and ex airline. I worked 26 days a month for years raising family while working in the reserves and flying overtime at the airlines. I know what hard work is. But this company will grind you down. There is no quality of life. They are understaffed and there are more leaving ( or dying )than being hired.

Come get your "free" cfi, cfii, and mei they said. You'll get all your ratings in 16 weeks they said. If it sounds too good to be true, that's because it is. This company will promise you the world to get you to come instruct for them, and then they will not provide. I dropped everything to move to Florida and take part in this opportunity. I should have been weary from the beginning when I realized that these people do no have all their ducks in a row. Anyway, I finished ground school and then it took 3 weeks to be assigned a flight instructor. To them that was considered fast. I flew for a bit and then was told that I needed to do a review flight with the Assistant Center Manager. Director of Standards told me this, and he said he would set it up for me. This was back in November. It is now the beginning of February and I am still waiting. Because you are not paid during your training, make sure you have plenty of money in savings, because it will take a while before you actually start getting paid. Even then, it's only $16 per flight hour. So you don't get paid for the time you are sitting on the ground. Because of this screeching halt in my flight training, FlightSafety allowed me to do data entry work for them. This will basically get you some spare cash, but still plan on living out of your savings account. When I spoke to HR about my halt in flight training, I was told that she would speak with the Director of Standards and figure out a plan for me. She didn't get back to me either. She in turn, emailed me 2 weeks later and asked if I got things straightened out. I spoke to other students in the same program, and I was informed that it took one guy 11 months just to his cfi. When I put in my withdrawal from the PCAS program, HR informed me that at the present time there are 15 people in the program, 6 of which are in the same boat as me or have already withdrawn. How does this not concern you guys? Do you not see the problem here? This company is completely unethical. They will want you to back date contracts, and they treat their employees with an "I own you" mentality.