ATP interview.
 

Someone I know closely may be interviewing with ATP in the near future. Is there any good gouge out there for ATP interview for CFI position?

I was under the assumption that they only hired CFI's who completed their programs?...(i.e. seminole time and flight experience to "Airilne Transport Profesionals" standards...) If this is the case, he should have all the info for the interview?

If this is not the case, then there are two ATP booklets out there that contain how to fly to 'ATP the school' standards, and the other book that explains the seminole systems and perf numbers. He'l also need the ATP seminole checklists for the 79 models and the 2000 and up models. Its also my understanding that you either have to know someone who has these laying around and is willing to give them away, or you pay the 50K and go thru the program.?

When I was thru there in 08, I heard the initial wash out was pretty high due to the 'chief' guy there kicking yelling and screaming at the applicants to see how they handle an 'unruly' student???....rumor or not i have no idea..

anyone else have other info?

ATP is not a good company to work for as a CFI. They don't pay that much and the instructors that I have seen are really used all hours. If you want to see how bad a company is to their students, work for ATP and see how low their standards are really. They don't care about the student, just the bottom line figure.

Did some training at ATP JAX, none of the instructors seemed to complain too much, they did seem to be worked pretty hard though. I was only on the student side so I'm sure I didn't get a true picture.

Stay away from ATP. You will work 7 days a week, no benefits, for $1500 a month. A management team that will purposely make you fly a student to exhaust his/her finances even if its known they will kick them out of the program, it's a shady operation. (Oh and if you go against their little "plan" of screwing people over, they won't like you too much!)

Go have fun flying at a flight school that allows you to fly where ever you and your student want to go, ATP only allows certain airports for your cross country flights, kills the fun and adventure of "aviating".

I instructed for ATP for about 5 months after teaching at a local flight school for a year and a half instructing Marines doing IFS and civilian students. Never had an interview over the phone, more of just setting up a class date to start. Really the instructor standardization is more of where they weed out people who aren't keeping up/teaching safely. The instructors who did my standardization were really relaxed and never yelled or did anything trying to be an unruly student. They just want you to be safe and would work with you if it seemed you were trying and a hard worker.

I liked instructing with ATP, they do keep you busy but you get your hours, especially multi. From where I came from, the planes are a lot better maintained and if something broke, maintenance/dispatch would fix or replace the plane pretty quickly. I personally never saw anyone get their finances exhausted by the company. If one of our students wasn't keeping up we would keep the student informed on their progress as well as the headquarters and would go through other options for them to succeed. Not saying it doesn't happen, but I never saw it.

Which location were you located at, and when?

I did everything but Private with ATP back starting in June 2008 in Stuart (no longer there), worked at a smaller flight school up in VA afterwards then instructed at FXE until this past December.