Originally Posted by BlueSkies

Here's an update for anyone considering Atlas and wondering about the negative reputation Atlas has for training (especially on the 747 side). Apparently the company knows about this reputation because they made every effort to tell us how "everyone makes it through." Over and over, until you really start to wonder, why do they feel the need to keep reassuring us? It doesn't help when someone says, "yeah everyone passes, well except for that one guy last week that we had to retrain, oh and that other guy..."

First the hard numbers. This is talking about a recent class (last few months). It was a 747 class of 24.

Oral=24/24 passed

One person left after the oral because they were already sick of the company's bs, bringing it down to a class of 23 for sims.

Type=22/23 passed

One person was retrained and passed.

As to the quality of the training, it was a lot of self-study, very uneven, and disorganized. Some instructors were great, others were legitimately terrible, but most were average. Overall my regional's training was vastly superior. Based on the training alone, I would not recommend Atlas to anyone unless they knew what they were getting into. If you find a good study group and hit the books hard it is doable.

I hope that helps people who are trying to make a decision.