Aurora OR flight school

[heli3544]

"Fly Helicopters" out of the Aurora State Airport is a HORRIBLE school. The owner is a flakey scum bag! Avoid at all cost! In case they changed there school name, it is a blue R22 at the north end of the airport in the T hangars by Willamette Aviation.

[Flying Pig]

Ummmm.... OK. We've laid out some dirt about schools on here before, but the last one was followed up by a screen shot of the county jail inmate booking page for the owner. Just saying "they suck" doesn't do any good for anybody.

[aussiecop]

Agreed FP. Heli, back it up with your full experience so others don't make the same mistake because they have a full picture of your experience. If you are in Oregon and are looking for a new school, one of my best mates is curently working on his CFI rating at Jerry Trimble and I also know an instructor at Inland Helicopters if you want some contact numbers to feel those operations out.

[Flying Pig]

I cant even find a web site for them.

[heligirl03]

Oregon has a lot of reputable helicopter training options. If we've never heard of FH at UAO, there's probably a good reason.

[heli3544]

Well for starters. You go to book a flight and set up a time to meet and they don't show. Then you call them to see what's going on and they chew your ass for calling and bugging them. Very strange operation...

[aussiecop]

Run.....run as fast as you can. Don't worry, the industry has a way of sorting people like that out by the fact that if they are a shitty operation, they no longer have customers and the bank comes and takes away their means for earning said money.