When looking for a school to train out I had 3 real things to consider. First was the location of the school, I needed somewhere that was within a reasonable distance. Second was the quality of the training and instructors and last was the fleet of aircraft at the school.
After searching I discovered a school at a small airport called Cranfield. The school was named Cranfield Flying School.
Cranfield is just 18 miles away from where I live so that was ideal for me and from their website I saw that they had Cessna 152, 172, Piper PA28 Warrior, Piper 28R Arrow, PA44 Seminole and even an Schweizer 300 Helicopter!
After looking at their website I felt like this was a professional outfit so I decided to book a trial lesson of a 30 minute flight. I loved this and you can read about it on more detail on this blog post about my first flying lesson.
I am now about to start my PPL (I had to wait a few months while I saved) and I am very confident about doing it at Cranfield flying school. I feel that the quality of the instruction I am about to get will be professional and hopefully in a few short months I will be writing about how I am now a fully certified PPL and will be able to progress on to an ATPL theory course.
For anyone in the Hearts, Beds & Bucks area who are thinking about learning to fly I suggest you give the guys at Cranfield Flying School a call.
