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Choosing a flight training school is not an easy task. After looking at a variety of brochures and Web sites, they all start to look the same. It becomes difficult to separate good a flight school from those who are simply good at selling themselves.

Besides the obvious items such as location, type of aircraft, and availability of student loans, there are many other items to consider when selecting your flight school. Often these items are not in the brochures aviation flight training colleges send out to you.

• Preparing Yourself for a Crisis:

Written by: Karl "Schlimmer" Schlimm of FCI Emergency Maneuver Training

The longer we fly, the better the odds that all of us will be confronted with a crisis requiring timely decision making, good judgment and piloting skill. Timely decision-making depends partly on being mentally prepared for the flight. Good judgment requires that we have a sound knowledge base. And both good judgment and piloting skill require training.