Originally Posted by
FredFlyer
I started class today and was able to get a little info from our Indoc Instructor. He had heard that my class was, at one point, going to be the last class for the rest of the calendar year. But, now, Atlas is planning 7 more classes through the end of the year; 5 classes of 12 and 2 classes of 10 for a total of 80 more trained. The last class is slated for December 5th. BTW, my class only has 8 students (not sure why).
I don't know how many more interviews they are going to conduct. Heard that there's around 40 people still swimming, and that's not counting those who just interviewed last week. Instructor mentioned they're screening out non-glass/FMS pilots. Maybe that's due to no more Classic training planned or that it reduces the 744 training by up to 3 days (if every student has a lot of glass experience)...or both.
If I heard my classmates correctly, 2 were February interviewees, 3 were March (myself included) and 3 were from April.
Good luck to all applying.
My contact said there were just over 80 people in the pool as of two weeks ago, and they were planning a class a month for the next two years. That number wouldn't include anyone from this month's interviews, either. ... But, as we all know, everything is subject to change, and rumors will fly.