Originally Posted by Username06

They have four at SkyWarrior, two of which you can’t take your checkride in. There are 21 people fighting for the multi right now and that number continues to build. One guy has been on multi for two weeks and flown 0.5 hours. PSA can exert some pressure on SkyWarrior and could also look into other schools or even better, have a student loan reimbursement program instead of paying the school directly. I for one would rather do the training at a safer, better managed school closer to home. For time building, SW is fine. Just do a good preflight and be prepared to take off 90 minutes late if it’s the first flight of the day. Anything related to a CFI is hit or miss. Some are good. Some are just bad. 99% have less aviation experience than any RTP student. There’s growing pains and PSA is fully aware. I just hope they are working on some solutions on their end. I think TSA has about 10 schools they’ll send you to. Your choice. Piedmont has at least one other than SkyWarrior.


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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer

Is there a book one can read that teaches what is on the written test?

Originally Posted by AboveAndBeyond

None at all. It is just a prerequisite to take the written test.

Pretty crazy, but that is what it is.

Originally Posted by WhiteMorpheus

If you are looking for something like the PTS for the written, I'm not sure, but if there is it'll be on the FAA web page (somewhere).

I'm sure Gleim still publishes a hard-copy question/answer bank for the ATP-Multiengine.

14 CFR 121 covers much of the testable material, with additional material from 14 CFR 117. Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators, Instrument Flying Handbook, and a few others are some other good resources.

In short, just get Sheppard Air and study that. Don't wait until you start ATP-CTP, though, start at least two weeks before.

Originally Posted by RW newbie

Your start date at skywarrior is pretty much up to you. If you are going from 0-250 hours 80 days would be a stretch. I arrived with about 14 hours toward my private and it took me about 25 days before I could check. That was a result of WX and DPE availability. DPE wasn't available for a week. The multi-engine is what is holding people up at the moment. The aircraft can't seem to stay out of maintenance. I know of numerous guys that have had to push back their FO date at PSA. There is a bubble beginning to form for the multi add-on.

Here is my advice. Go get you PPL and instrument ratings. You will need to pay for that out of pocket at SW anyway. Then, theoretically everything at SW would be covered by the 23K PSA gives you.

Hopefully they fix this multi-engine issue soon. Some people are considering just forking over the $ and getting it somewhere else.

Originally Posted by WICheeseHead

How does the commuter clause work with lousy weather? Is that covered with the 2 flights to get to work? Say there is a snowstorm forecast for tomorrow, and I have a 12pm show time tomorrow. Do I HAVE to go the day before, or would I be covered if the morning of the trip all of the flights to domicile were cancelled because of the weather?
Also, say in the middle of a 4 days trip we get one of our flights that I was supposed to be working cancelled and I was overnighting in base (in the middle of the 4 days trip). Is that hotel now my responsibility to pay for, or would the company pay for it?
Thank you.

Originally Posted by SonicFlyer

Is there a book one can read that teaches what is on the written test?

Originally Posted by Pilot Sharp

Shepard Air!!! It’s the way to go. Back when I used them for my ATP written they offered a money back offer if you scored below a 90%. I studied for two weeks, scored a 74%, and got my money back. I think I over studied by 4%