Think about this. The 90 day program. That is 90 days of aviation. That is all you do, is study, fly, take writtens, and checkrides. When you were getting your instructor ratings, how long did it take, and did you fly and study everyday? I am not saying you didn't, I am just curious. Some of the guys who come out of ATP think that they are gods gift to aviation. There are instructors and pilots like that everywhere. By no means did I think that I was a great instructor day one, who is. Anyone who says that they were the best instructor they could be just starting out is lying. It took me a little while to totally feel comfortable. After I was finished with the 90 day program, you don't go straight into instructing. I was working in the dispatch office for almost 2 months. Most of us down there continued to study waiting for a location that we had requested to open up. We studied and went into the sim alot. We also flew with students who had just gotten the PPL. We taught them basic intruments skills while they built up their cross country time. In order to instruct in the multis for ATP, you have to take a check with the chief pilot. He is not the most experience aviator out there, but he is a former Cobra pilot in the army, has all of the ratings for both helos and fixed wing aircraft. Has something like 5000 hours just in the seminole. So his resume isn't so bad. But like I said before, I don't agree with some of the ways that ATP operates, I have my own negative opinions about some things there, and some of the times, the chief pilot isn't available to give check rides, so I think that there are some bad apples that make it through. But you can't tell me that in all of your years of aviation, you have never looked over at the guy next to year and thought to yourself, how did this guys make it through training?