ATP Rating

[TDK90]

Should hit the ATP mins early next year, anyone reccommend a good place to go for the rating, places to avoid? A few of my buddies have been to ATP, but I'm not sure if I want to go that route. I'd rather fly with someone who has an ATP rating and a lot more hours than me.

 

[buckdanny]

Just currious, how are you managing to hit the 50 hours CC at the same time you hit 1500 being a CFI!? I'm at 1900 and still 95 hours short of CC time!

Buck

 

[105viking]

I'd rather fly with someone who has an ATP rating and a lot more hours than me.

last time i looked, i don't think you have to log any dual toward an atp. unless you want to.

i took mine at ATP. the "training" they gave me was the checkride profile, which for me was flown at 6 AM on the morning of my 9 o'clock checkride. ride was in a seminole. i've never flown one before, but it was no big deal. the plane i flew was in nice condition, but it still flew like a pig.

i looked at a couple of options.

1. take the check-ride in a airplane that i have free access too. couldn't find an examiner who could do checkrides in that airplane and was convenient and cost effective.

2. rent a twin that just about any examiner can give the ride in.
local schools require a 10hr check out with am mei. $2,500+.

3. ATP.

the atp ride is kind of like a big IPC, with a focus on the aircraft systems for the oral. if you are really current on instruments, it should be a no brainer.

if you are not current, maybe you should seek out some additional instruction. also, chances are, if you are not current enough to pass, you most likely are not in a job that you need to be an ATP yet, so why not wait a while to get it. many people get on with a regional as a commercial pilot, and let the company pay for their ATP as part of a type ride. just a thought.

back to ALL ATP's, it seems like they have a two day and a week long course. i called for the two day course and was told that it was for "airline and military pilots," which i am not. i said i wasn't going to pay for or take a week to do an ATP and hung up. a manager called me back and said they would be glad to let me take the two day course. no big deal. moral of the story, take the cheaper two day course if you are up to it. it's not hard.

105viking

 

[RideTheWind]

Dude, check the blinking banner at the top of the page, $5,995. for a B-737 type rating, you will get the ATP at the same time if you have the written done.

http://www.fti737.com/737-200.html

 

[bobbysamd]

Sheble Aviation

I earned my ATP in 1989 at Sheble Aviation when they were still in Blythe, California. I arrived at 4:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon and left at noon Monday with my ticket.

I would just advise you that if you use Sheble to arrive prepared. I had practiced their approaches for several hours in our Riddle sims and a friend who went there for his multi had given me his Duchess materials. You can get through the program if you know nothing about the airplane beforehand, but you do need to be instrument current or better.

Sheble is extremely informal. I recall that the airport was in the middle of nowhere and there were cats camped out in the hangar. It most definitely is not your father's flight school.

Hope that helps. Good luck with your practical.