Books to help study for ATP
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Rocketman99
Frozen Guppy Manipulator
Honestly dude, I would just buy the GLEIM ATP book and study the two weeks and learn the question bank. You'll be covered for every test question. After all that, I would recommend actually reading the sections and learning the info.4
Fins Up
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I used some software called "ASA Prepware". I took about six weeks learning the material - actually knowing how to do the weight and balance and stuff like that. That's the old school, and much more difficult, way to do it.
Some of my friends used a website called "Sheperd Air". (not sure about the spelling.) I think you pay a fee to have access to the site for a month or so to study the questions, then you go take the test at a CATS testing site.
Probably the quickest and easiest way is to use an ALLATPS flight training center if you happen to be near one. You can get the studying and the test done in a matter of hours. They sit you in front of a computer where you spend as much time as you want clicking through the questions and learning (or at least memorizing) the answers.
I hear Gleim has good products also but I don't have any experience with them.
Some of my friends used a website called "Sheperd Air". (not sure about the spelling.) I think you pay a fee to have access to the site for a month or so to study the questions, then you go take the test at a CATS testing site.
Probably the quickest and easiest way is to use an ALLATPS flight training center if you happen to be near one. You can get the studying and the test done in a matter of hours. They sit you in front of a computer where you spend as much time as you want clicking through the questions and learning (or at least memorizing) the answers.
I hear Gleim has good products also but I don't have any experience with them.
skinswin34
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I did ATP's 1 day ATP in March. I had never flown anything bigger than a light twin part 91 and got a 96% Not necessarily the way to go if you want to actually learn the material, but definately recommended if you just want that sheet of paper.
Cruise
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Fixed the spelling for ya! This is what I used and it's great if you just want to bang out the test in a short amount of time for a relatively cheap cost.
Sheppard Air Home Page
BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
But honestly, do you need to know how to do weight shift equations in a DC9 or figure out the max range using charts that you can't even read?
Some of the 121 ops questions are useful things to know, but that is stuff you will learn as you need it.
I took mine out in PHX at Willie and by the time I drove back to Skyharbor and was on the rental car bus back to the airport I think I had dumped all 300 questions I had memorized.
I feel that the test are just a hurdle that you have to jump over to take the practical and are a waste of time. If you have a good CFI and attend a ground school then you will learn the material needed. As far as the ATP test I agree that you should just hit the Gleim hard for a couple of weeks and knock out the test.
KLB
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He's doing his along with a 135 type rating check ride. I need to get started on mines also. I think I'm going the all atp's route.
skinswin34
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Snuggle
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Another +1 for sheppard air. Don't go to ALLATPS. Sheppard air is the exact same thing they have but you download it on your own computer and it's cheaper. I studied it a couple of hours a day for about 3 days and scored a 93% on the written. It's for the 121 written though.
beechpilot
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I agree, I'm finding the Gleim book to be pretty helpful.
skinswin34
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Good point Snuggle. I din't even think about that. ALLATPS is only for the 121 ATP Written. They dumb the question bank down to about 590 questions by removing 135 and heli's and everything thats not 121. Forgot about that