Boeing Field, in Seattle, is beneath the SeaTac Class B...but ATC has
designed flight paths and altitudes allowing fairly easy arrivals and
departures from BFI. Before I moved to BFI, I instructed at a small
uncontrolled field about 30 miles north of Seattle. It was and is a popular
airport and it was not uncommon to wait a few minutes before there was a gap
in the line of arrivals. Conversely, at BFI the tower did a fair job of
sequencing arrivals and departures and delays, while not totally absent,
were no worse than those at the uncontrolled airport.

The big difference is that my students from the little airport would not
come down to BFI, no matter how many cups of coffee I offered, while my BFI
students flew up to the uncontrolled airport without a second thought.
Summary: Use Addison...you'll be better off in the long run. The worst thing
you can do to yourself is to develop a reluctance to fly into class B, C, or
D, because they aren't going to go away, while little airports disappear
every week.

Bob Gardner
"Dallas" wrote in message
.net...
I'm finding myself motivated to take a few lessons and I'm getting
conflicting opinions as to how to pick a flight school. As you can see
from
my moniker, I'm from Dallas and Addison Airport has quite a few schools.

One opinion was that Addison was a good choice because they'll have more
modern aircraft and more proficient schools.

The other opinion that seems to make sense is to pick a flight school
outside of the city in a rural area to get away from the traffic and the
Class B airspace. I could see how you could burn up a lot of your time on
the taxiways at Addison and once in the air, use up more time getting to a
practice area. I'm afraid that I'd only get 30 minutes for my hour.

Opinions?

Dallas