Originally Posted by AirWillie
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?
You just won the award for the dumbest person on this forum. You obviously have no freakin clue about ATP instructors. 95% of my flying is done in and around the airport environment(Class C at that) which alot of instructors fly in and out of their non-towered airports. I have almost 400 hours of dual given in multi engine aircraft. All ranging from pvt multi to atp. I have done 4 long cross country flights in 8 months of instructing. Don't tell me that I am just sitting in the seat chillin. I have almost been put into spins 3 times with my students which isn't fun in a seminole during a Vmc demo. Yes ATP does try to emulate the airline environment to some extent. That is because the majority of the people are trying to get to the airlines. We have dispatchers because someone has to keep track of over the 100 total planes that ATP owns. Planes need to be moved around the country to our various maintanence locations and as other locations need planes for training. The only people that do the "coast to coast" flights as you say are students. 2 students fly those routes to build up time. There is no instructor on board. Once they get their instrument rating, they fly 75 hours of XC. Most of this flying is done around some of the countries busiest airports like Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, LA, San Fran, San Diego, Chicago, and D.C. just to name a few. Something you obviously didn't know. One thing that makes me realize that you don't know what you are talking about is flight proficiency. You can't tell me that flying 200 hours over a period of 1 year is better than flying that in 90 days. The more you fly the better you are. The worst pilots are those who don't fly that often and they get extremely rusty on simple things like comms. But I guess that you wouldn't know that because you are an idiot.