"W P Dixon" wrote in message ...
Alot of those guys and girls had been working on planes for 15 or 20 years
and took their A&P at the Sanford location because he was cheaper than
anyone else. If you think you know more than a mech that has worked on the
line for 15 or 20 years who doesn't yet have his A&P just because you went
to school....you have alot to learn.
At one time I even thought about trying to make it to that guys place
and taking it...because it was cheap. I have 20 plus years experience on
numerous types of aircraft ( fixed and rotor) and I have never needed an A&P
license to work. But always having a family to support it is difficult to
take off for a week of work and spend 1000 bucks doing it as well. So money
is a key factor to most people in the real world.

I'm in kind of the situation described. I've been at this off and on
for 20 or so years but always earned my living doing something else.
Time has now come where I think I need the piece of paper that says I
am an A+P so I don't have to keep getting friendly I/A's to sign off
my work. I'll be getting a couple of weeks off this winter and had
planned to go to one of these quick A+P schools. Now this pops up so
my question:

Can/would anyone make a few suggestions about which one of the "one
week wonder schools" actually does a proper job of testing? Any
places like the one described to avoid?

If I'm not up to the task I need to know that, so I don't want a
rubber stamp operation, and I also don't want to have to go through
the whole thing again a few years down the line. After all finding
the time is the hard part to begin with.......
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Leon McAtee
Checking all the web sites from TAP for A+P testing