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Does ATP hire outside CFIs?

Old 07-21-2013, 11:48 AM
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Hello all,

I am currently attending a part 141 academy in Florida, but would prefer to instruct in the Atlanta area once I am finished here.

I read the information on their website about needing to work where they have availability, but I don't see anything directly related to hiring CFIs from outside ATP.

I wanted to ask here before I send them my information again, and then get marketing calls and emails from them for the next two months. . . Thanks again!
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Old 07-21-2013, 11:55 AM
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I would be willing to do my Multi, CFI, CFII and MEI with them.
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Old 07-21-2013, 04:36 PM
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ATP is a Not a good cfi job. You could do much better if you are moving to Georgia. I would hit up the forum and find out what other flight schools are hiring in the area you are wanting to move to.
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Old 07-21-2013, 05:24 PM
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Agreed. Avoid ATP as a flight instructor job. The pay is incredibly poor and they do not treat their employees well.
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I feel safer going through a larger flight school, at least at first. Plus I would really like to stay around the North Atlanta area. Not a great deal of options for part 141, and part 61 with some experienced competition.
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Old 07-21-2013, 06:37 PM
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I had 7 instructors during my training at ATP PDK, they all kept complaining about working there. ATP will place you where they need you, they have now 4 instructors at PDK so i would think they are getting very busy there, most students who finish the ACPP there will like to instruct in Atlanta. I think they are opening a location at RYY though.
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Originally Posted by SurfNsun View Post
They pay better than most regional airlines pay their first officers for first and second year. You will fly more often than if you work for any other flight school plus you will be flying a seminole. Good move. Be persistent and go in to meet any of the current employees. It will depend on instructor need and your perseverance
I have friends who taught there. They average a salary of $800-1000 a month and make $7 an hour for flight instruction. How is that better than a second year first officer at most airlines?

If you do enough research, there are plenty of great opportunities. I acquired well over 700 multi while flight instructing and literally made double what ATP instructors made.
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Originally Posted by SurfNsun View Post
I have friends who taught there as well and their retainer was $2000 a month plus bonuses. Not sure what year you are referring to but this would be something to look into. I definitely wouldn't go by what you say. And I also didn't say better than "most airlines." I specifically said regional airlines. In reference to your 700 multi acquired, I'm going to go ahead and make a safe bet it wasn't accumulated faster than the rate at which the ATP instructors are accumulating that same amount of multi.
I grossed $2000 every two weeks.

I accumulated 700 MEL hours in exactly one year.
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Pretty much no. With the 1500hr rule forcing ppl to have to instruct longer, there's no room for outside cfi's anymore. $2,000 RETAINER...untrue. Might gross that INCLUDING retainer & bonuses.
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They used to (and still kind of do) hire people outside of their programs. Now, the problem is that they have guaranteed CFI jobs to a lot of the people in their programs and those people need to get 1500 hours. So instead of getting their commercial CFI at 250 hours, and then instructing for another 200-400 hours and getting hired by an airline, their instructors are needing 1250+ hours to meet ATP mins.

If you are a two year CFI and can teach CFI and have a decent amount of multi - espeically PA-44 time, then you'd have a fair shot. But I'd say the chances are low for getting hired as a new CFI.

About 2.5 years ago when I did my CFI there, I wanted to work for them in Altanta, and they didn't have any openings in Atlanta. And at about the same time, they lowered the monthly retainer from $1500 to $750, and supposedly upped the bonuses and hourly pay. I decided the pay was too crappy to go to one of their other locations.

Then I tried to do the part 61 thing in Atlanta, and the market for part 61 CFI's is terrible there. I was lucky to get 15 hours of flight time and maybe 20-25 billable hours per month. Then I got hired by a university and moved away from ATL (current job). At my current job, the pay is salaried (but not great by any means), and the flight time is only 350-400 hours per year, and there is almost no multi to be had, so I tried to get on at ATP about a year ago just to build time faster and get multi time, but they told me at that time they weren't hiring anyone outside of ATP that isn't a two year CFI. Now that I'm qualified to teach initial CFI's I might give going to ATP another try, because I've gotten a whopping 14.7 hours of multi in the past two years at my current job. ATP also pays the 2 year CFI's a decent salary and it would definitely be a raise. But they treat their CFI's like crap, and teaching their CFI school seems like it would be especially stressful.
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