Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Seven days for a bus type? That sounds sporting, hope you have transport category experience.
Its doable, they give you the study material to study for the oral stuff+callouts+flows+triggers+etc before hand by months. So you are on your own/with your partner studying for the oral checkride and chair flying. So that cuts out a lot of time from the program
They give a mock oral day one, and you should've already been prepared to take the oral before attending class.
The 7 days is mostly sim stuff. And again here, you should've already been prepared with the callouts, it's a matter of clean up.
At my regional airline we did 8 days of sim before the checkride and it worked out fine for everyone.
I went to atp for all my ratings and certs and finished in just 7 months. Yes it is stressful, but it's a proven program for sure, and the self studying speeds things up much faster.