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Old 07-16-2006 | 12:58 PM
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First of all you have no idea what you are talking about. The two week program at ATP is based on you, the prospective student, doing alot of prep before showing up. No one can learn how to teach or all the crap that you need to know in two weeks. Second, ATP does not know exactly who you are getting for the checkride, the FSDO assigns that. They have a good idea who though. What you do in that two weeks, is talk about what the PTS requires for the checkride, go over this CFI pretest that they send you when you sign up the course, go over some FARs, and do alot of lesson plans. You also have a good chuck of flight time to take care of. Ground school is from 8am until the instructor feels like letting you go, sometimes 6-8pm. The guy who teaches the course in JAX is Walt Schamel. He is an FAA Master Instructor and helped write the PTS and the FARs. He also teaches DPE ground school. He is well known throughout the aviation community. So unless you really know what you are talking about, I would keep my mouth shut.
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