Originally Posted by
Twin Wasp
The 142 schools will just have another class for the ACTP certification before you take the written. The class is 24 classroom and 16 sim hours so say 8-10 days. Then you go take the written and then you start the class you came for.
The 2 years airline experience requirement is only for the instructors teaching the ACTP class. AllATPs can still have 300 hour CFIs providing flight training in light twins but the student will have to have their ACTP paperwork when they show up.
Thanks for clarifying the ATP Instructor minimums apply to the Certification Training Program aspect of the ATP training!
It seems like there would be a market for the CTP course and if a flight school offers an ATP program they would have to offer the CTP to attract the business. They go hand in hand and the cost of getting an ATP will double to triple with 16 hours of level 4? sim time by an ATP Instructor, two weeks of hotels, etc.!
I can see the airlines compelled to offer the CTP as part of their new hire training to attract qualified applicants. Of course those who come with an ATP in hand will have a week or two seniority over those who don't and the CTP could be used as a screening process as well.
The key is trying to keep them on the property! Obviously the cost to train the new hire for the CTP, knowledge exam, initial ATP and a PIC type rating will certainly be expensive! In addition, the second they get 1000 hours SIC in a 121 environment they blast off to the next highest bidder! This concept of "training contracts" may re-emerge but in reality it is so costly to enforce. You can't get blood from a turnip! Just trying to envision the repercussions of all this crap!