Originally Posted by one3eb
I am new to this forum and it seems like this is a good place for information. I currently go to Phoenix East Aviation in Daytona Beach, Fl. It is an accredited flight school under 141 ops. I like the school and I dont pay a boat load for my training but it is going super slow. Everyone keeps telling me to check out ATP. I already have my PPL and my Instrument and i am working on my multi commercial. I am wondering how much a student can learn in a 14 day CFI class. It seems like it would me a super quick memorization of the course the check ride and then off to teach students with little Instructing experience. How can this be benificial besides saving time? Thanks, Jason
I think ATP CFIs get away with it because most of their flying is just sitting on a seat doing long cross countries, therefore they aren't constantly teaching as another would doing work around an airport many times a day. One of the major faults that ATP has in their philosophy is that they try to emulate an airline flying environment. They have dispatchers and do coast to coast flights. The problem with that is that those kids need to be learning how to fly planes rather than learning how to fly in an airline environment. They're not going to learn much by flying for 90 days non-stop. It's your choice, if you've got something going at your school why ruin it?