G J would never waste money paying for a monkey when it can put a pilot in there at half the cost. Monkeys require government inspections and compliance with ethical treatment of animals; pilots, not so much. When the monkey is sick he can't fly, the G J pilot had better work in spite of his serious illness or he will be fired. Monkey food is expensive, pilots will fly for peanuts or have to buy their own food. With monkeys G J has to pay the entire cost of health care; the pilot will pay 5000 out of his $19000 yearly pay plus another 3000+ for deductable. The monkey won't pay for his own uniform; the G J pilot will pay most of his own. The monkey requires money for housing; the G J pilot will get a second job or borrow from his family to subsidize his housing cost. The costs for the monkey are there even if snow cancels a couple days of flying; the G J pilot works without cancelation pay. The G J pilot will pay 300 a year for his family to sit standby for 3 days trying to get on a flight. The monkey requires less retraining than the G J pilot.

Talk to your boy prior121.

I don't know how I missed this one.

ATP Flight School is a giant joke, true story. This game would be far better off without them.

My flight school wouldn't hire ATP students as instructors. Yet regionals? I guess when the fountain is dry.

I agree that ATP is a complete con and a giant disservice to professional aviation. I could go on rant after rant on how it does very little to prepare its students for anything other than the absolute minimum standard. I'm not even going to get into the wonderful indentured servitude program they offer.

On the other hand, to completely deny any candidate primarily because they went to ATP without evaluating their personal knowledge and abilities is petty. I know a few guys who went there. After talking with and flying with them, it was clear that they were very intelligent and obviously studied hard on their own because they were better than many of the CFI Univeristy (ERAU) instructors that I'd flown with.