Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I wouldn't do it unless you have a real good reason or are good buds with the examiner. There's no real upside to having a SELATP and the downside is a possible checkride bust.
I think the general consensus is that the SELATP checkride is easier than the SEL Commercial checkride being primarily an instrument check. Only really useful for military guys using milcomp CFI transfer to SEL CFI...and the very, very few jobs that require one.