I'm against guys promoting a program they've never been through as if they had been. Period.

 

I'm doing no more than sharing my research w/ others.

Anytime now the self-appointed defender of the realm De727 will pipe in with his 'he's only a PPL' post...

-LAFF

 

Oh stop it! Sheesh! Can't we all just get along and have different opinions?!

Ready2fly- I go to ATP and I love it. Simple as that. It works for me. An FBO did not fit what I was trying to achieve in my time frame and my situation. DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU. Research all of your options! If you choose to go the ATP way, great, if not, then great too - it's all about what works for YOU.

MHM

 

pick whatever is the best for you, in my opinion atp school is a little too high in price for the product. buying your way into a jet job isn't really a short cut. you can get there just as fast by doing your ratings at a local fbo. I would venture to guess that most fbos, if you sat down and spoke with the manager, would work out an arrangement with you to be a full time student and have an instructor scheduled with you for multiple sessions per day and you would be able to finish in just as short of a time period with somewhere around half of the cost of the brand name schools. I had a couple of students when I was instructing that wanted to do this type of thing. Got them through their cfi and multi in about 6 months start to finish. They both had airline jobs within the next year and gained a lot of experience teaching at a small fbo. I enjoyed that route myself. taught for about 2 years and made contacts and flew some part 91 twins. 2000TT and 500ME in two years while in college at a big twelve university. I'm now at my number one top choice regional and my cost of training was.....about $26,000. I was happy with my route but everyone has to do what's best for them.

 

"Anytime now the self-appointed defender of the realm De727 will pipe in with his 'he's only a PPL' post..."

LAFF is only a PPL....

While I never considered myself defender of anything. In my own defense, I'll say I've been flying since 1976, a CFI since 1980, and working in biz as a 121 crewmember since 1987. I'm currently a UPS 757/767 Capt based in Ontario, CA. Oh yeah, I garnered enough respect from the APC admins that they made me a mod here.

If LAFF see's me as a "defender of the realm", then I wear that with pride, as it seems the masses of experieced pilots that are beating him into the dirt at APC are starting to wear on him.

 

LOL....Only a matter of time before the 'I'm an APC Admin' line started to show up in your posts...

-LAFF

 

Mod, not Admin. Big difference.

 

I attend ATP now and I think it was a good decision. comparing the time you get and the price you pay for it. ATP overwhelmingly beat other schools. There's no other of the big Schools out there that gives you the ME time that ATP does and the time that they do it. It's not the best way to go if you're not a quick learner I've seen Several people asked/forced to leave the program. By far IMO it's the quickest and best way to go for the product and price

 

Here's where I did my evaluations before I made my decision to go to ATP

http://www.fltops.com/flightschools.asp

 

Congrats! You picked the least expensive of the overpriced schools.