Current 737 Type Rating Costs

[IFLYASA]

I'm looking at getting a 737 type rating in the near future. Does anybody know of some good deals out there? Here is what I have received so far:

Aerostar, $13,500 for a 21 day program

Flight Training International, $15313 if you come alone, $9002 with a partner, 8 days long.

Higher Power Aviation, $7380

Pan Am Academy, $4995, 14 days.

For me, the cheapest price is the best..

 

[atr42flyer]

I did mine at Pan Am in January.

$4995 plus it was about $925 in hotel bill, I did it in 13 straight days no breaks. I stayed at the Courtyard Marriot in Las Vegas free cook to order breakfast and the hotel takes you to and fro!

 

[se1776]

I understand that you are not asking for my opinion.

I have two friends that got the BBJ B737 at the Aeroservice in Miami. The training center promise them a job interview with a company as soon as they completed their type. At the end, both of them got a job flying a smaller jet overseas.

Please don’t take this in an offensive way.

Save your money, unless you have a job offer then go ahead and get it.

 

[IFLYASA]

I understand that you are not asking for my opinion.

I have two friends that got the BBJ B737 at the Aeroservice in Miami. The training center promise them a job interview with a company as soon as they completed their type. At the end, both of them got a job flying a smaller jet overseas.

Please don’t take this in an offensive way.

Save your money, unless you have a job offer then go ahead and get it.

I would only do this "if" I had a job offer that required it. Hint hint..

 

[greed]

I would only do this "if" I had a job offer that required it. Hint hint..

Very Nice! (I hope I am reading into your hint right)

 

[bravodude]

I'm looking at getting a 737 type rating in the near future. Does anybody know of some good deals out there? Here is what I have received so far:

Aerostar, $13,500 for a 21 day program

Flight Training International, $15313 if you come alone, $9002 with a partner, 8 days long.

Higher Power Aviation, $7380

Pan Am Academy, $4995, 14 days.

For me, the cheapest price is the best..

If your goal is to get a job at SWA I would say go to HP. I had a job offer before I got my type at HP. We had 7 people in class with 2 of us that had job offers and 5 that did not. They had someone come in from the people dept. and eventually everyone had an interview.
I will say that HP is not the only place to go and in my class at SWA we had people from a lot of diff schools. Personally I think that going to HP might help but just a LITTLE BIT.

 

[IFLYASA]

If your goal is to get a job at SWA I would say go to HP. I had a job offer before I got my type at HP. We had 7 people in class with 2 of us that had job offers and 5 that did not. They had someone come in from the people dept. and eventually everyone had an interview.
I will say that HP is not the only place to go and in my class at SWA we had people from a lot of diff schools. Personally I think that going to HP might help but just a LITTLE BIT.

HP does seem to be in on the SWA side of things. If I did have a job offer, I wouldn't think it matters where I got the type by then. I'll just play it by ear.

 

[Narco-leftseat]

Aeroservices is Pan-Am now. I got a 737NG Type there for $8K.

If they are offering 737 types for $5 K take it !

 

[Sandhawk]

there is also K&S in PHX

http://www.kandsaviation.com/

 

[RHINO AIR]

Be very careful, a 737 type rating on your certificate can be the "Kiss of Death" at companies other than SWA, especially Corporate and Charter, if you don't have actual flight time in the Guppy.

 

[atr42flyer]

If your goal is to get a job at SWA I would say go to HP. I had a job offer before I got my type at HP. We had 7 people in class with 2 of us that had job offers and 5 that did not. They had someone come in from the people dept. and eventually everyone had an interview.
I will say that HP is not the only place to go and in my class at SWA we had people from a lot of diff schools. Personally I think that going to HP might help but just a LITTLE BIT.

how long ago was this? when did you do your type?

 

[Max_Motoring]

I used crew pilot training...systems was done with a cbt flash drive before you show up and you use the swa -300 sims. $8100 including all expenses.

www.crewpilottraining.com

 

[bravodude]

how long ago was this? when did you do your type?

I got my type 4 years ago after the job offer. I just saw an email where HP was asking any former SWA students in Dallas for help. ( i have no idea what that means)

 

[dogg]

4 years ago....cost me 9 years of my life and 7000 hrs in every variant that Boeing made (and a couple they didn't) of that fluf....but I got it. Can,t imagine what the purpose of the paid for paper rating is.......

 

[Ky.BrownBourbn]

If you are trying to get hired at SW, they don't care where you got it...it's not like your rating says b-737 hp (higher power) I got mine though the guys in DEN, flight training Int'l (they may be out of business), training was done at Alteon in Dallas (they used sims in Denver, Phoenix,& LAS as well) the hp guys were there as well. We looked comfortable in shorts and t-shirts, they were wearing slacks and collared shirts, some with ties. I was the customer, they (FTI or Alteon) didn't care how I showed up!

I know, they tell you to "look professional", I already had the job, I kept my dry cleaning for the first day of class!

All the type rating schools use the same sims. If I could've done it in an NG for 8100, I may have done it, at the time the bbj type was 25k. I think the low tech 200/300 was the way to go for me because I had flown the last 10 years in glass, my scan was rusty!

I don't recommend getting the type before getting the job offer UNLESS someone else is paying for it!

Good luck,
KBB