Mr. Brian Kealy:

Our son continued, as a number of the other students did, in Florida. We paid FIT, which was covered by the IAA to continue the training. Our son completed some of this training there and he went to Atlantic Flight Training Academy in Cork. To be fair to the academy, it took a good few of the students, particularly the company-sponsored students. In our dealings with them, they have only ever asked for the money on a pay-as-you-go basis. They never looked for stage payments on a strict timetable basis. We said if we got involved with another company, it would have to be on the basis that we just paid as we went and Atlantic Flight Training Academy, fortunately, was in that position. I believe that is also the approach of the National Flight Centre in Weston. Those are the two primary trainers in the country. A few others provide modest training.