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Hey guys/gals,

Did anyone here go through ALL.ATPs to do their ATP written? I hear that the success rate is high. Is it tollerable to sit in front of the computer all day and then take the test at the end of the day?

Let me know what you think. I'm not at ATP mins, but I think/hope it will give me a leg up on the next guy at an interview...

Let me know what you think...

Lax

I did the ATP written prep course at ALL ATP. They offered a discount for furloughed ALPA members from my company (at least at the local site in KHEF).

It's a boring day, but pretty easy and the pass rate is very good. I had done a bit of studying over the years with the gleim, but the prep gives you "everything" that you need to know.

Essentially you sit in front of the computer for as long as you can tolerate and look at questions paired with the correct answer (only look at the right answer).

The thought is that if you can recognize one of the two, your brain should be able to pair up the other part of the pair (either the question or answer). Most of the time when taking the test, I found myself just looking at the answer choices and picking out the option that was familiar to me.

IIRC, I think I got a 94% with 2 questions wrong (both flight planning questions that I didn't want to complete so guessed at). The whole process took me about 7 1/2 hrs. (showed up at 9am, studied till noon, went to lunch for an hour with another furloughee, studied from 1 until about 330, then took the test from 330-430.)

Already had an atp, but went there for my FE written. What FlyerJosh said is true. Boring, but it took one day and I got a 93%.

My experience was similar to Josh's, except I was EXTREMELY fatigued (hadn't slept in 30+ hours). I got a 96% by memorizing the answers to the flight planning problems instead of guessing. I had taken the test years earlier, but hadn't reviewed anything before I showed up.

Get the Gleim, learn the info, take the test, safe youself some money.

I did that the first time, but unfortunately the gleim doesn't teach you anything other than what is in the FAA question bank, which is not enough to understand FAR 121. Also, it's tough to get much more than a 90% if you try to actually do the flight planning problems (I did). And it took me about 3-4 weeks to go through the book.

To each their own. I used the Gliem, studied on and off for 2 months or so, and scored a 94%.
** I also studied the FARFC

Best of luck of the test!

I went to AllATPs for my ATP written. Started at 8am, got annoyed with the computer by around 11:30am and said "Forget this, bring on the test..." and scored a mid 90s... I think it was around 97 or something. The only studying i did before hand was the 121 section of the Gleim, which was pretty easy.

Well worth the money, because they reduce the question bank considerably. I think it was down to 585 questions last I checked. It's funny, I took my written exam for my General Class ham license last weekend, with the morse code element as well... and people were complaining about a 400 question bank. Written exams are a funny thing... :rolleyes:

Here's thing, if you are not a big book person, and I am not. As much as I try and would like to be, I am not. So you can buy the book you can buy the computer software, or you can spend 6 hours of your day wailing through this thing. I don't know anybody who scored less than a 90% from ATP.

I had skipped all of the flight plan/fuel questions about airplanes that I was not going to fly for 5-10 years if ever and scored a 94% in 30 minutes. Not that it was a race, just worked out to be 30 minutes.

ATP has a plan. Get the written out of the way just my opinion.

Thanks people!

Lax