Originally Posted by
sflpilot
This was not a job interview, just applying to a flight school. Which in the rest of the aviation world means showing up with money and wear whatever you want. There is no testing and they will train anyone who can pay. You will be paying them a lot of money and you are their customer. The promises of jobs if you finish all the training do not mean a whole lot because they could just fire anyone they don’t want. One more thing, the amount training time it takes to pass the checkrides varies widely from person to person. So while they tout that it’s just one flat fee, that will likely not be the case for most people.
This isn’t a Part 61 local flight school for non-career minded folks. They seem like they want to operate it like ATP. Churn out pilots and keep a schedule. ATP seems to do it at a high level and doesn’t seem to make a lot of exceptions.
Edit: To Add, all the testing is probably to determine aptitude so the candidates can reasonably be assure of passing an accelerated program and in effect it is a job interview as they are offering guaranteed jobs as a CFI and FO at YX.
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