I will have my commercial and multi within the next few months. With that in mind, I was planning for the future. I want to work for an airline as quickly as possible? (everyones dream) and the way to do that is to build time. many recommend being an instructor.
Only if I have to will I instruct, otherwise I don't want to.
After a great deal of research I finally came down to FSA.
I am interested in the Advanced Airline Training Program http://www.flightsafetyacademy.com/c...n_advanced.php
It's a program done in four phases and costs $27,500

Anybody have any thoughts about this?

thanks

My thoughts are that instructing will make you a better pilot and 250 hour pilots don't belong in RJ's.

D@mn straight they don't.

F35Captain Im headed down to fsa at the end of august. Im planning on instructing instead of wasting more money on the aatp. They will pay for your cfii and mei if you are hired there. I think that you could learn a lot from instructing.

Although i don't see a huge problem with low time pilots in RJ's (wanted to be one of them) I do agree that being a CFI will make you a better pilot. The question that lies here that nobody seems to be asking on this forum is: How good do you have to be to be a First Officer?
That's off topic so anyways....
I went to FSI looking into their AATP, probably would do the same thing if i had the chance because it makes sense ( at least to me back then).
Having looked back on it, could have saved myself a boat load of money doing the CFI thing (I still am not employed or earning an income as a professional pilot in any sense of the word). 22,500$/27,500$ is a lot of money on top of what you may have already spent earning your Comm/Instrument/Multi ratings.

At Flight Safety, if you instruct for 800hrs (about 1 year, and the total time you will NEED to get on with an airline), they will pay for your CFII and MEI ratings (almost $10,000). It is a good deal. Don't waste your time and LOTS OF MONEY to attend an RJ transition course (which any regional airline would eventaully pay for) just for an unlikely shot to get hired at low time.

I agree with ryan. 10,000 dollars is a lot of money. The aatp program is really for people getting a late start and want to get in fast. But getting 10,000 back is way better than paying 25,000. I think I can wait a year longer.

Have you tried to fly with one, perhaps in significant weather?

Skywest considers a 1000+ hour CFI as too inexperienced for the right seat of a jet, and they are probably right.

Thanks everyone for the feedback and the advice

I went to FSA's website and no where does it say the cost for the CFI program anyone know how much?

some ppl will just never get it rickair7777, they think at 250 hrs they are the world's greatest pilot... hell I've even seen some of them with that very license plate frame lol.