Gents, just finished up with crazy Carl nuzzo at accessible aviation in columbus and wanted to pass along a review for those weighing their options.
To their credit, they did squeeze us in despite the rush and backlog and we >DID< receive the training and experience we needed.
The accommodations were marginally acceptable. I stayed at his house which is standard. I was upstairs in a detached separate area. There is also a few bedrooms in a townhouse on the other side of town (think college living).
The company and organization were atrocious and at times infuriating. Despite a rather large sum of money changing hands, I was never treated as a paying customer, and often treated as a hindrance. The training program was sloppy, disorganized, and never punctual. Maintenance wants drove some training directives (ie "we simulate that in training so we don't wear out that boost pump", "don't actually retract the gear on the stall recovery to save wear on the hydraulic pump","don't turn on the strobes, we don't want to run out of blinker fluid"). They were very concerned that "damn students" would booger up a brand new interior. Training materials and "checklists" were cobbled together and Inconsistent.
Execution was maddening as well. In some cases people that walked talked and flew as CFIs were in actuality just a safety observer since those folks didn't actually posses the hours or ticket to be a CFI. Safety observers/CFIs were often on their phones...airborne, mid brief, mid academics, and mid conversation. Nothing happened on time or as planned.
There were some other folks that had arrived a few days earlier and updated us on the situation and managed our expectations.
With all of that said, however, I >>HIGHLY<< recommend accessible aviation for your ATP.
Happy to answer questions.