I had intended to further my flight training with AeroGuard while studying at Arizona State University. I'm glad I left it behind before making deposits or beginning training. The school is a complete disgrace, so much so that Cathay Pacific cadet pilots cannot solo. I have overheard that CFIs have been forced to endorse student pilot solos long before said individuals are genuinely ready, causing damage to aircraft. Research has led me to believe this place is the epitome of pilot mill schools, where students are just a number, and the company wants their money. From my brief experience, the management was often aggressive or unapproachable, which speaks volumes to the negativity presented about their flight training and structure. Scheduling is also horrendous, unrealistic, last-minute, and rigid in the ability to change it. I highly recommend prospective students look elsewhere. It's places like these that degrade the safety of aviation, both on the general and commercial levels.

I've done all of my training here. And although there is not such thing as a business that fits everyone's expectations, this place is everything I needed. I'm glad I decided to be a part of it. They prioritize SAFETY like no other place. Also, they don't mess around with pushing people to go fly... It is always left at Instructor-Student's discretion. Finally, their aircraft maintenance program, according to DPE's that travel around the country, is the best and most reliable of any flights school they have flown with. And I am a witness of it.

Came here for two months this year, it was by far one of the worst experiences of my life. First off they will tell you whatever it takes to get you in the door. Their website touts 7 ratings in 10-14months, 2-2.5yrs to the airlines... in reality it's taking them over 2 years to get students to 7 ratings, then you still have the 1500hrs to build after that. Out of the people they put me into their housing with; one individual was past the two year mark an barely working on his CFI and the other was at 7 months and barely up to his second stage check for PPL! Their focus is on their Cathay students, and they throw American students on the back burner. Cathay gets the best flight blocks and they will steal your plane if there's anything that breaks or needs maintenance on theirs, that way the Cathay students can get their flight hours.... Meanwhile you're stuck twiddling your thumbs. It's Phoenix and heat is to be expected, 95% percent of their planes do not have AC and rarely have functional blowers, greatly restricting the hours they can be operated in most months, and leaving you either sweating to death or not flying at all. They sell the program as having a lot of in person education in regard to the ground school. The reality is you'll have a ground school 4-6hrs a week and the rest of the education they offer will be home-study on a tablet, which they charge you over 1,800 dollars for the course work and is the equivalent of buying gold seal or sportys which you could get for $2-300 dollars. Flights are not scheduled until 6pm the day prior, so you have no room to plan ahead, (they literally require you to have no job or other school during your time as a student) then it's a crapshoot if you let actually able to fly or not, given factors I've mentioned prior. If you're lucky enough to get a flight block it's never more than 2 hours long, 1 hour of which will be eaten up doing preflight, taxi out and clearance. With that 1 hour you'll be lucky to get once or maybe twice a week they expect you to be wholly proficient and if you fall out of their "standards" they have no issue saying you have to retain/retake that lesson which will set you back an extra $6-700 dollars plus the time wasted trying to get the flight block. Their program is set up in away to be incentivized to fail you, which they will do often, then if you go to the admin asking for help they put you on a learning plan which is not set up to help the student but rather position them so that they can kick you out by saying it's all due to the students underperformance. Yep they will rake you over the coals, then say it's all because you didn't apply yourself. For a school with $120,000 dollar price tag they do not care about your success, they care about getting your money. They have no problem with the students not being scheduled for flights for weeks at a time, then expect you to show up and perform as though you've flown 6 times a week. Their housing is outrageous $700 a month for a shared room, which again is only to serve to line their pockets as you will be paying $700 and lucky to fly 5-6 times in the month. They shame you if you ask to swap an instructor, and blame you as though your just trying to be difficult and will set you back at least a week saying it's admin trying to swap your instructor. If you're paying over 100k for a school you should be able to try every available instructor until you jive with one, not be assigned one and shamed if you don't get along. If you take a loan and withdraw early they will drag their feet on getting the excess funds returned to the lender, it took them over 2 months after the time they quoted! They blamed it on Zuntafi, but when finally getting them to clarify the date the funds were sent back on they had not sent them as the claimed they had earlier! They told me the ACH takes weeks.. standard ACH is 3 business days... it was going round and round with them just to get the unused money sent back.…. Character limit reached full review on FB and Yelp. DO NOT COME TO THIS SCHOOL.

The school located at Deer valley Airport does not provide a indoor comfortable atmosphere for teaching, due to lack of indoor air quality..." Little to no adequate air conditioning" They provide little to no concerns about helping students achieve their goals towards ratings.. " their focus seems to be on making money, money, money". Managers are rarely available to address individual questions or concerns... For the amount of money they charge for a career in aviation, I expected "high end quality" education. "I am not a student", I am a relative of a student attending the school, and provide the financial support for said person. My relative can get better education, attention and career ratings for less at local FBO... I am disappointed with AeroGuard Flight Training Center... I would not recommend attending their school... Since we are locked into a contact, I would loose money taking my family member out of AeroGuard.. I wish I read previous comments before providing financial support..

Avoid this program updated post, WELL, the old manager never followed the students, go figure months of waiting, NOW they tell him the instructor never had the group take a ground test, NO COMMUNICTION, students who have left this program who joined after my son, already are DONE and completed at OTHER SCHOOLS..... They tell you anything to get you into the program say full time done in 9-12 months. What a joke !!! My son waits weeks to check rides and stage checks NOW waiting over 5 weeks for a spin mission …. He can not do anything else before one mission !!! Sitting and wasted time and money No one is helping Many calls and emails NOTHINGS!! All his roommates say same thing No support or help