Posted: 12/4/2005 12:56:40 PM EDT
| Has anyone trained there (Firearms Academy of Seattle)? What did you think about the quailty and content? I did poke around their website and from that it looked reasonable. The course prices seemed *extremely* inexpensive compared to others. Any input your might give would be apprecited. AP |
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I've take FAS2, FAS3, and FAS4. 2 & 4 were taught by Tom Haeflinger (sp?). He is a good instructor and has a bit of fun in his classes. For the money, it's really a tough course to beat. FAS3 was taught by Marty Hayes. He has a nice, utilitarian facility. You certainly get your money's worth at FAS. I'm considering taking FAS4 again, as I believe they offer 1/2 price classes for alumni, and it was quite a bit of fun. The one class I was in had 8 people in it. Evidently we were the first class in FAS history to all qualify, each and every one of us. Not every one passed with the same amount of ease and effort, but it was good group none the less. I think my certificate was only #168, so it's not the easiest of tasks. As a comparison, I've also taken the HIT class down at Thunder Ranch Oregon and the CP1 course from Jeff Gonzales at Trident Concepts. While TRO doesn't give out "Master" certificates for passing any of their student classes, I'd still say that it was a tougher course than FAS4, but at three times the price for tuition, plus all the added costs of going to school out of town and using green ammo. Given the opportunity, I'd do HIT at TRO again, also. Jeff's class was also quite a bit more intense than FAS4, but there again, it was half again as much money. Jeff is a superb instructor. I'd take just about any class he offered if he were to come back to the area. Jeff does give a "score" on your abilities, not really a master rating or such, but just something to guage yourself. He uses the score to decide if you're up to speed enough to move onto the next class. Unfortunately for us, even though we qualified for the next class, it was cancelled for some reason. I hope he offers it again sometime. In summation, I'd probably take any of the classes again, other than FAS2 (it's geared a little slower than I needed) and FAS3 (unless Tom was teaching it). If you get a chance at the skill builder course such as FAS4, you'd do yourself well to take it. |