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Berichi Aviation


Country United States
State Florida
City Pompano Beach
Address 911 NE 10th St
Phone 954-247-4924
Website http://www.berichiaviation.com/

Berichi Aviation Reviews

Most Useful Comment
  • Oct 13, 2017

I was a student at berichi aviation. Avoid this school.

The outcome of studying here is that i am $10,000 out of pocket and my dreams of being a pilot are dashed. I almost died at this school due to poor safety standards. Want to know my story and avoid berichi aviation? Read on……..

From the very beginning of knowing charles berichi i was suspicious. In my emails i asked to speak to present and past students and he said ‘no’ every time. He always complained that i was asking too many questions. I should have realised that he was hiding something. And he was hiding so much.

He does not even have a classroom. He uses the reception area and facilities of w aviation. This is a recurring theme…a parasite who does not want to spend his money, only drain students of theirs.

1. Charlie told me that it was fine to come to the usa on a tourist visa as this was not a university course. After arriving my instructor pointed out to me that i should ‘keep quiet’ about my status here as the law states that i need a student visa.

2. The budget charlie sent me is about 20% less than it should be. See no 9 below.

3. He charged me $50 to receive international payments to his bank. I contacted the bank and their biggest fee is $15!! this is the tip of the iceberg.

4. You have to buy 3 polo shirts as uniform for $150. They are worth $60 maximum.

5. Charlie will brow beat you into flying 10 hours a day…..If the propeller is turning, he is earning and that is the most important.

6. There is no syllabus. There are no records of progress….The instructor makes the lesson up on the spur of the moment.

7. Charlie does not want to answer any questions except scheduling and money. Everything else he diverts to the instructor.

8. There is only one instructor who is 68 and regularly does a 12 hour day at beichi. He regularly yawned during flights. His eyesight is quite bad. Several times he made errors due to this.

9. My instructor did not fully understand the g1000 so it was the bind leading the blind at $175 dry an hour. Btw you can get the c172 with g1000 for $80 just negotiate. Also try northstar aviation, also at kfxe, same aircraft for $172 wet!!

10. Charlie uses an faa examiner in tampa. This is 2.5 hours flight away so you have to hire the aircraft to get there. Charlie says this is the cheapest checkride in florida at $400. But when you add the cost of rental and fuel it can be $1400 so the most expensive in florida. Charlie loves this as he is earning!!!

11. The instructor made me falsify my logbook. He told me to add more landings so that i could fulfil the cross country requirements. Again this is due to zero planning on behalf of charlie and the instructor. I have an audio recording of my instructor saying ‘don’t worry, nobody will question the changes’. I have made an official complaint to the faa. This made me very, very nervous.

12. The instructor signed my faa ir exam result certificate without going over the 3 questions i got wrong. This is fraud i believe.

13. The instructor did not give me all my endorsements before my checkride. If i had gone to the checkride without this, it would have been cancelled but the trip to tampa would have cost me $1000!

14. Charlie is a bullshit cowboy pilot. He prides himself that he can do his checks while taxiing. This is so dangerous! i flew with him. He rushed me through my checks and told me that the auto pilot is ok. When we took off the elevator was stuck because we had not checked the ap. He almost killed me.

15. Charlie flew with me a few times and actually instructed me even though he is not a cfi. This is surely illegal and dangerous.

Charlie is a parasite. He owns nothing, he leases the aircraft, has no classroom, no hangars he owns nothing!! he uses students to pay for his own flying career. He is known as dracula on the internet as he sucks people dry. Look at this review from another student in may 2017. He corroborates my experience.

17. I had planned to do my ir on the cherokee. 2 flights in the radios broke as well as the dme and other equipment so i had to go onto the c172 an increase of $40 an hour!!

18. His facebook slogan is @in the end your success will speak for itself’ ……but when you get there by fleecing innocent people out of $1000s of dollars, i don’t count that as success.

19.Charlie berichi has a criminal record. This is why he can’t fly for the airlines so his career is to rip students off. Fond charlies criminal record here…florida.Arrests.Org/arrests/charles_berichi_4608466/

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Most Useful Comment
  • May 20, 2017

I joined Berichi Aviation as an international student. It was not a smooth process from the beginning. Berichi is owned by Charles Berichi who is in his mid 20's. The emails sent are trully not professional and he is not knowledgeable in most of the processes but acts and brags as if he is the Aviation King and knows it all (He is still doing his Commercial Pilot certificate). I had to buy it because my TSA got approved and it takes additional time and money to change school. Infact, I came in with my tourist visa as advised by Berichi, which later today I came to know from other school that I can be in trouble without a student visa. It was shocking for me on the first day to realise that Berichi Aviation has no office, no classrooms or any kind of facilities nor any materials to be classified as a school. The only 2 things they have are aircrafts and instructors (one full time and one part time).They use Waviation as base. I didn’t even see any other students while I was here though Berichi keep saying calendar is busy and was consistently bugging me to join early.

On the first day I paid upfront 5k as I didn’t want to keep the cash with me thou it was a pay as you fly concept. Ground schools were held in other banyan lounge, other airports and hangars. Invoices and billings are not proper without a proper head letter. I get charged extra for ground schools unnecessarily. There was one day, we had to abort take off as the door was inoperative and not closable. I was billed for the entire time we were fiddling the door trying to fix and for taxing back. The requirement for cross country according to FAA is only 3 hours but I have 11.7 hours of cross country out of total 27.4 hours in my log. On top of that I was scheduled to do another 3 cross country of which 2 was to KCGC from KFXE which was 215NM one way, for my private pilot certification. It was a complete ripoff and Berichi was adamant enough that we follow his non-sensical schedule. Also something they will never share is that the check ride is 215NM away and of course you are expected to rent the airplane and pay the fuel to get there by yourself just for the test. My schedules were crazy some from 7am till 7pm and Berichi expects us (me and instructor) to fly for the whole period to fill up his pockets. He changes the schedule as he like, change the instructor without prior discussion and just removes my off day without explanation. There was once I started at 1230 and we returned back after doing cross country around 1900 thou the schedule was till 2300. I could not focus anymore due to fatigue and hence both me n CFI decided we would return in mind of safety. Later I received an email from my school saying that I deviated the schedule without any authorization.

After 8 torturous days I decided I could not deal with Berichi anymore and I quit. I demanded my money back (2K) which I paid just a day before as a top up but he refused with his ugly tone of voice. He fail to give any reason why and ignoring my messages to give me a copy of the agreement I sign for. Berichi is mainly a Dracula who sucks all your blood out. It also came to my knowledge from a reliable resource that I am not the first who got upset with Berichi and to leave half way. Flying is suppose to be fun and I came all the way to US to fulfill my dream with my hard earned money and it was crushed by Berichi The 2 instructors are super great but they both are equally trapped. I hope this saves someone from falling in Berichi trap again. Stay away from Berichi.

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