Originally Posted by
belliott
I recently met a flight instructor that went to AllATPS and completed their 14 day CFI/CFII/MEI course. Although this guy knew his schtuff down pat I can't help but wonder how many people actually pass the checkride on the first go and how much information they either learn or retain as a result of such rapid training.......... just a thought.
Pass rate at ATP is surprisingly not that high. From what I've heard and obviously it's not universal but about 40% of students fail at least one check ride. ATP students that go into CFI school have a good pass rate, street pilots that go into the CFI school have a low pass rate. I think ATP gets the smack mostly because people are ignorant of what ATP does. ATP doesn't cut corners, they don't hold hands, they offer exactly what you get at the local school. It's just for people that want to do it quickly as in fly 8-5 for 3 months straight, with out the FBO bull$hit. If anything pilots that come out of ATP are better because they have shown that they can handle an intensive structured training with airline procedures. Not to mention it's all multi with nation wide cross-country experience.