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Old 06-11-2007 | 07:52 PM
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pick whatever is the best for you, in my opinion atp school is a little too high in price for the product. buying your way into a jet job isn't really a short cut. you can get there just as fast by doing your ratings at a local fbo. I would venture to guess that most fbos, if you sat down and spoke with the manager, would work out an arrangement with you to be a full time student and have an instructor scheduled with you for multiple sessions per day and you would be able to finish in just as short of a time period with somewhere around half of the cost of the brand name schools. I had a couple of students when I was instructing that wanted to do this type of thing. Got them through their cfi and multi in about 6 months start to finish. They both had airline jobs within the next year and gained a lot of experience teaching at a small fbo. I enjoyed that route myself. taught for about 2 years and made contacts and flew some part 91 twins. 2000TT and 500ME in two years while in college at a big twelve university. I'm now at my number one top choice regional and my cost of training was.....about $26,000. I was happy with my route but everyone has to do what's best for them.
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