I can not recommend this outfit, i send my son there with 12h flighttime from another school. I was intrigued by a professional school (he can finish in 18 month, fly 3 times a week) expecting experienced CFI. Far from that, the instructors are the usually green boys on their way to the airlines, no teaching capability whatsoever. My kid did not align with the CFI (my kid accidentally rode the brakes for 4 flights and the CFI did not notice) after a while they passed him to a rookie and they managed to get a tail strike. Then to keep the completion story of the school up, they just buried him in “ground lessons” , “The weather is bad” every time i looked at the stratus weather and it was flyable, not ideal but thats how you learn. Do not sign up with them a waste of money.

Dropped my son from the program after 2 years in the program (in conjunction with U of Memphis). Passed all his classes at Memphis on honor roll. So not a dumb kid. I place much of the blame on the instructors. Told from the beginning he would fly at least 3 times per week. lol! That turned out to be 1-2 times every 2 weeks. How the heck do you expect anyone to learn and retain when not flying any more often than that? Terrible program. They over contract-not enough aircraft or instructors.

This is such a Class A facility. We came in a small Cessna 150 to stop for the evening, and immediately were greeted at the airplane. We had a top off of only 15 gallons of fuel and some oil, and we were treated like royalty. Huge space to sit in, great 100LL prices, and extremely friendly staff including one instructor who I had a very nice conversation with about MEI stuff. They also gave us the use of the crew car and a great deal on Hampton Inn rooms for $99 per night. We come back the next day, attempt to leave, and find out that our alternator has stopped working. The local A&P, Matt, agreed to troubleshoot the problem even though he admits to not being fully understanding of the 150 electrical system. We won't have the new alternator for another 2 to 3 days, but we were told it would be no problem to leave the airplane on the ramp and that they would even put it in the hangar if bad weather was on the way. I can't say enough good things about CTI as an outstanding FBO. As a school I'm sure their brand new fleet of airplanes and friendly and knowledgeable instructors follow the outstanding protocol of service that I've seen so far. When I'm near Memphis again, I will make it a point to come back to Millington and buy hundreds of gallons of 100LL for our 340 or 421 and maybe get some DA42 time. I love this place!!

I am a HUGE fan of this place even though I discovered them accidentally. My husband and I live in Arkansas and needed to take our private pilot written exam. We originally scheduled with a different flight school downtown...which turned out to be a disaster. We took off work, drove an hour, and were only minutes from the downtown test center when they called us to tell us the owner/proctor needed to reschedule. Long story short, he chose to fly someone to the Gulf rather than proctor our exam. We called CTI to see if they could work us in at the last minute and they were AWESOME. They got us in immediately. The facility is amazing and the proctor was kind and professional. GREAT place and GREAT staff. AND we both passed our tests, just in case you were wondering.

I moved to Millington, TN from Delaware to train at CTI. I was told one thing and showed up to train for instrument through MEI and experienced something completely different. The 5 days a week and 8 month time period became 2-3 days a week and 18 month period. The staff and students are amazing, but they have too many contracts and not enough instructors (a problem everywhere). I decided to withdraw from the program and look for something that better fit my needs. The school refunded my loan in it's entirety and took care of my housing for the month I was there as well as the lessons I did end up having, books, and fees. The facility looks brand new and the Diamond aircraft are really nice - however, I do wish I knew that the DA-20s here are not approved for IMC so all instrument training is done with foggles. Although I was disappointed with my experience here, they made the situation right. I would recommend CTI to someone who wants quality training (although a lot is self-taught), but not someone with a timeline they want to stick to.