Agreed. In addition to this, why would you spend this much money on the PACE program ($10k) to get hired at 250ish hours when they are taking people off the street with less than 500. In other words, you could instruct at a busy flight school and have the flight time in less time than it takes to do the MAPD program. All while earning income!

As far as their primary/ab initio program, a much better deal is to do ATP's 90 day Career Pilot Program. You instruct at the end of it and have chances at more than one company: http://www.pilotjobs.com/ And.. all of those companies aren't MESA!

And while you're at it, why would you go to Mesa at 500 hours when other finer regionals are hiring at 500-600 hours!??!? That's the question of the decade.

XJT, Republic, SKYW, Eagle are all much better choices. Ornstein Air can tank for all we care.