Reviews of Dorval Aviation Inc (School)

Jun Xie

(Translated) The place where I flew for the first time was unforgettable! (Original) 我第一次飞行的地方，很难忘！

Kostas

I’ve been going to this school for about a year now and I feel I’m ready to write a review, I started my private pilots license in August of 2020 amidst the corona virus pandemic and I can safely say that all the instructors and owners always value the health and safety of the students.The school is in a convenient location for people living on the island of Montréal and is the only school that flies out of Montreal Trudeau, the convenient location and large airport with all kinds of airplanes small or large operating to this airport conditions you to what you would be working with once you are an airline pilot and how an airport of this size works. The ground school was exceptional the instructors where very thorough and would answer any questions we had.The airplanes well always well maintained and I felt perfectly safe in them while doing my walk arounds I never found anything that would concern me for my health and safety.Overall the school has been an excellent place to do my private pilots license and soon I hope I could move on to my night rating and commercial license with them!

Sunny Raj

Best Aviation school

P B

4/5 Instruction Started out great. Instructors are fine. One of them only somewhat knew his content. 4/5 on the instruction. 0/5 on support. This school provides no material what so ever to prepare you for the ground school exam. They show a presentation of 100+ slides and its up to you to memorize it in one shot. Not reasonable to take notes on every single thing. Only way you're passing it to buy a book worth another couple hundred bucks. To buy their paper equipment is again over priced. Get them from amazon/ebay. 0/5 Communication. Its a legit mission to get in contact with them. No ones going to answer the phone, ever. Emails will get half answered one in a while. God forbid you have anything urgent to ask them cause good luck. 0/5 on fairness. I attended 7/14 classes and had to leave montreal for family reasons. I requested a refund. No reply or response. Finally got hold of some guy who refused to id himself. Flat out said "Does McGill refund you when you leave the course" I dont even go to McGill... and "Please stop trying to contact us" after I paid out 500$. There a certain level of competence and professionalism that must be up held which was clearly lacking by management. Its all smiles up until you pay that fees. Conclusion: You can complete ground school online of same equivalence at 250$. And at least you can keep the presentations and course material to revise for the exam. You're even provided the letter of recommendations and practice papers. Cheaper, quicker, convenient, less drama with people.

Yong Song

After reading the owner's reply, I feel obliged to leave a few more words to the current owner: With respect, I hope you know what was happening and what you are talking about. It was not fair for what you said here. If you want to talk, we can do face-to-face and straighten things out. Or, I can give a few more detailed facts here which I don't enjoy, and you might not like. Btw. I've got my license from other flight school. From my instructor. I see the good quality of a pilot, and of an instructor: A good instructor always brings the good out of you, and be professional, not take advantage of being "privileged". I am responsible for every word I said. My personal experience with the school was terrible. When my training was close to the end, I encountered huge resistance from the chief pilot who took excuses not to fly test me for solo. After a lot of effort of communication (2.5 months waiting), I took the flight test and failed. Some more weeks waiting, I took another test with my instructor on board, I passed. However I was still not allowed to fly solo cross-country because of my ¨limited French¨, which means I will NEVER be able to solo and will NEVER get my license. I had to leave the school for another one. My current instructor is a non French speaker. Transport Canada or ICAO never has a rule on French proficiency requirement to fly in Quebec. From earlier, I wanted to talk to someone from the school to have the problem solved, but I found no one. It seems she is in charge of everything.. I have no idea why all this happened. May I believe it is more personal than professional the way I was treated? However, I would give a thumb up to some of the instructors that I met at the school. They are friendly, polite and professional. However they are not able to help me with this issue.