Jim Weir wrote:
With all due respects for my admiration for you, Bob...

I've been considering for some time now starting a "14 day wonder" pilot course.
Before you come up here to spend 24/7 for two weeks at my chosen motel, you've
taken my ground school online and passed the written. If you haven't passed the
written with a 90%+ you keep taking my online quizzes until you have taken ten
of them in a row with 90%+.

...

Some day Gail and I will be able to afford to establish the Flight School For
Perfection. Until then...I respectfully disagree with your criticism of those
who are trying to achieve it.

Jim,

If you do establish said flight school, I'm sure it would produce good
pilots.

However, I don't believe the standard "get your pilot rating quick"
course is in any way an attempt to establish "the Flight School for
Perfection". I think it's an attempt to get people their ratings,
fast. Period.

If I remember correctly, someone went through such a course and
wrote a magazine article about it. I'll see if I can remember which
and find it. He went, passed, got his rating, then went home to
be evaluated by a local CFI/DE. IIRC, the evaluation was, the
basic elements were there but the depth wasn't.

Cheers,
Sydney