I copied this from an E-mail by a Marine fly buddy. It seemed pretty far out there but a well-known, current and well-respected CFI, Bud Davisson tells about it on his own site on the link at the bottom:
With respect to our calendar, there was BC and AD, based upon our Lord.
With respect to aviation there was BGFL and AGFL, based upon the unregulated, Greedy F****** Lawyers.
Back in 1971, there was a place you could go and serious flight training training...and then SOLO a Steaerman, a T-28 .................and a P-51, F-4 Corsair; and a B-25...
For $1800...........
Although he has a basic outline, the actual course has to be custom-tailored to the individual's needs. Basically, for $1,800 (Ed: sit down before you read the rest of this sentence. You won’t believe it!) you get 10 hours of Stearman time, 10 hours of T-6 (five front, five back), two hours of Mustang, a couple hours in the B-25 and two in the Bearcat (or four in the B-25 to try for a type rating). He gets students of all possible backgrounds, from 100 to 10,000 hours, and he tries to work up to the talent and experience level of the student. If you have absolutely no tailwheel time, you'll probably start in a Citabria, figuring out what a tailwheel is for before he lets you into his Stearman.
Burchinal is the epitome of the "attitude-only" type of instructor, and he has no airspeed indicator in your end of the airplane. He's more interested in developing the seat of your pants than instrument interpretation.
Once you've graduated from the Stearman, you get to play with that North American student-stomper, the SNJ-5. The SNJ differs from the T6D and G and the Canadian Harvards in that it doesn't have a steerable tailwheel. It's a locking full-swivel type. Burch uses this because it's a little more difficult to fly than a regular T-6 and you learn a lot more.
The Mustang is constantly dangling in front of you like a liquid-cooled carrot, enticing you to do better and work harder. Everything you do in the SNJ is related to the Mustang. When you're ready to try the Mustang on for size, he starts mixing P-51 rides with periodic check rides in the SNJ. He takes you up in the 51 and shows you torque rolls, stalls, and shoots a couple of landings. Since there are no controls in the back of the Mustang, the best you can do is reach around him and feel the stick. Then he pulls over to the side, hops out, and it's up to you.
If you're trying to do the entire course in one sitting, he'll sneak in an occasional B-25 ride. The B-25 is a real moose and lets you know what heavy means in the term heavy aircraft. It also shows you how weak your arms are and gives you a chance to see exactly what a big airplane feels like when you dirty it up on final and depend on power to get you to the numbers. It's good training for accelerating your brain ahead of the airplane.
With respect to the comment about lawyers, I wouldn't have put it in quite that set of terms. But, I think he's referring more to the many torts that came about by lawyers who had no respect for aviation but rather went after the money where it was often a case of bad pilots, bad maintenance and incredibly bad judgment. If we address those, lawyers are a non-issue. Remove those few barristers and all we'd have left are a few lawyers like those on this board who love flying, love airplanes and will nothing that won't support the cause of this great sport and the professionals in aviation.
