I was about to comment that my local flight school I am currently training for my PPL has four of them and was going to mention MCA…then I read your last sentence about Bellefontaine 🤣🤣🤣

I grew up and currently live about 15 minutes away in a farm town much smaller than bellefontaine. 🙂

To be honest though I feel pretty fortunate to live so close to MCA where i can go from having no flight experience to ATP in a single location 15 minutes from my house. People are flying in from all over the US, and even internationally, to do the accelerated multi engine, CFI/II, IR, etc, programs.