LAFrequentflyer
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- Oct 17, 2005
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It's a good thing you're just a recreational pilot sound like a kite is just for you. ATP has been around since 1980s. It's a good bet that 1 out of a handful of the professional pilots you see out there from majors to regionals to cargo to corp came from ATP, including thousands and thousands of military pilots who do their civ stuff there.
Either you're one of the idiots who couldn't make it through the program or you just want to flame bait with your post. ATP students do exactly the same quality of training and better only they do it everyday instead of once every 2 weeks mom and pop students do. CFI check rides are done by the FAA. The fact that the program is only 4 months doesn't mean that it's dumbed down, you basically live and breathe flying during those 4 months. You will have no life other than 8 hours of flying and hours of studying. Does the local mom and pop place put two brand new instrument pilots inside a 350K plane and allow them to fly coast to coast?? ATP is a great program but it's not for those that need hand holding, as is the case at airline training events. ATP is not a mom and pop school, they are focused on airline procedures. If you want to be a bush pilot or want to spend hours learning a subject with a lot of hand holding, ATP is not for you. From day one they tech multi crew concept in flying.
The reason I plan on going to ATP for my post PPL training is to learn the airline / crew procedures way from day 1. I've been saving money diligently for the past few years. Once I retire from the AF I'm going there and then moving on to CFI. I have a few contacts at Dynamic Aviation, General Atomics, etc...Airline flying is a backup plan. Ideal job would be as a UAV pilot / trainer for General Atomics with deployments to the middle-east 4-6 months of the year. Keeping my fingers crossed that it all works out.