International Aero Academy, Lakeland Florida Tailwheel's Etc Required prepayment for flight training and failed to provided the promised training. Lakeland Florida

International Aero Academy offers a two-week long flight training program, promising the availability of both aircraft and ground training to remain on schedule and to complete flight training in 2 weeks. They require prepayment for the first half of the training and then provide insufficient flight hours and ground training. The school was not equipped with sufficient aircraft to accommodate the needs of their students as well as to accommodate for routine maintenance downtime.

The flight instructors were also of questionable quality. The instructor that I was assigned was unsure about many of the basic componenets of the particular aircraft that we were training on. Additionally, due to lack of sufficient aircraft we operated aircraft with questionable maintenance problems that other flight schools would ground (e.g. a non-functioning brake).

Training was only available at approximately a 5 week schedule. After reviewing the promised completion timeline versus the actual pace of flight school progression, increased pace was promised as well as contact information for prior students who could verify the ability of the school to complete their training on time. No verification information was ever provided regarding prior successful student training and no refund was offered. This was a gross misrepresentation. This misrepresentation was also confirmed by the flight instructors stated that training typically took 4 weeks and they were not aware of any students completing training on schedule in 2 weeks. As such, instead of the flight hours cost in between $150 and $200 per hour, they averaged closer to $900 per hour.