LoadMasterC141
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Your both Lucky...I have to wait until May-June at the earliest.
Congrats and keep us informed on how things go.
Congrats and keep us informed on how things go.
Going to interview at ATP(Arlington)
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avi8tor1983
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Thanks. I don't know if I could wait that long to get started on this. The crazy thing is that I told James I wanted to start on the 19th of Feb and he told me ok but there are only 2 slots open so I would have to get the deposite in quick. I called back like 10 mins later to get that all done because well I was way to excited to just tell him my CC number. I just said thats all and hung up haha. When I called back and talked to the financing guy to take my CC number and set the date he looked and said that there was no start date on the 19th. James created it for me. I don't know if I should feel special or not? haha. I will keep everyone posted on how my training is going.
dmlong
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Congrats on your interview. Maybe I'll see you there when I go for my interview in February. Good luck on your training.
avi8tor1983
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Well I started at ATP(Dallas). Let me tell you it is intence. I arrived and the first words out of my instructors mouth was...Let me go check when your checkride is. I stated on a monday and my checkride was set up for the following tuesday. I had from there 5 days of 10 hours of ground with about 5 hours of sim time. Two days prior to my multi add on check ride I finally got to fly the seminol. Let me tell you its something else. I flew in 2 hour intervals. I logged 8 hours in two days and the next was my check ride. The ride went very well and I passed the oral and check ride in the same day. My poor flight partner met a worse fate and has failed 3 rides now. The program over all is pretty intence and its not for those who need to learn at your own pace. They have a saying really around here. "Get comfertable with being uncomfertable". I didn't think I was ready for it but it turned out I was. Anyhow i'm on to my instrument phase of the program and I will be starting my lovely sim time that i'm really not looking forward to.
DMLONG....Did you come up to ATP for an interview? I think I saw you. The instructor that did the interview is my instuctor and she kicked herself in the butt for not showing you around. Anyhow if it was best of luck to ya!:nana2:
DMLONG....Did you come up to ATP for an interview? I think I saw you. The instructor that did the interview is my instuctor and she kicked herself in the butt for not showing you around. Anyhow if it was best of luck to ya!:nana2:
SRA_kbad
Scooter Trash!!!
Sounds like you're moving along quite nicely. Thanks for the update, and keep us informed on your progress.
dmlong
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Yes, I was up there around the end of last month. I was accepted pending my First Class Med. After that finally goes through, I can schedule a start date. Tell your intructor (Ms. A) don’t worry about it and thank her for me.
Wow!!! The program does sounds intense. Right now I’m studying my but off by reading the Seminole supplement that I downloaded from the ATP site. Other than that and taking all of the required written test before my class date, is there any other good tips on preparing for that first intense week?
Good luck to you.
avi8tor1983
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As for preparing. KNOW THE FIRST 17 PAGES OF THE SUPPLEMENT! I can't stress that enuf. The multi add on is really fast and be overwhelming. You do get a lot of ground time with you or at least mine did...8 hours a day for the first 4 days. You will be given checklists on everything once you start so you will have to memorize those when you get here. I can help you out on two of them
Engine failular: Maintain directional control, pitch, attitued and airspeed. Mixtures, Props and throttles full forward. Identify(Dead foot), Verify(Close throttle), Fix or feather(This is where you would run the troubleshoot checklist above 3500 feet), Feather the prop, close the mixture.
Cruise checklist: 24" Manifold pressure, 2300 Rpm, 24" Manifold pressure, Check 2 left(thats engine instruments), check 6 right(more engine istruments), Cowl flaps as required, fuel pumps off, landing light, recog light, lean the mixtures one at a time.
Know how to explane the aerodynamical factors on a multi engine, critical engine, Electrical system, Fuel system, landing gear, just the stuff you would have to learn about a new aircraft.
Best of luck to you as well!
Engine failular: Maintain directional control, pitch, attitued and airspeed. Mixtures, Props and throttles full forward. Identify(Dead foot), Verify(Close throttle), Fix or feather(This is where you would run the troubleshoot checklist above 3500 feet), Feather the prop, close the mixture.
Cruise checklist: 24" Manifold pressure, 2300 Rpm, 24" Manifold pressure, Check 2 left(thats engine instruments), check 6 right(more engine istruments), Cowl flaps as required, fuel pumps off, landing light, recog light, lean the mixtures one at a time.
Know how to explane the aerodynamical factors on a multi engine, critical engine, Electrical system, Fuel system, landing gear, just the stuff you would have to learn about a new aircraft.
Best of luck to you as well!
SRA_kbad
Scooter Trash!!!
I'm studying that stuff now!!!
It sure is a whole lot of info all at once. Hopefully I'll have it memorized by the end of Apr, when I start.
Keep us posted on your progress
dmlong
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SpiraMirabilis
Possible Subversive
Theres one in the back of the supplement I think?
avi8tor1983
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Yup there sure is. Very back page of the supplement. Well its 3 am and I just got in. I left ATP here in dallas around 4 pm...Arrived in Tulsa, OK at 6pm, we went out and ate and heard a pretty decent band play. We left Tulsa at midnight and got back here around 230...let me tell you i love this stuff haha. Anywho...Yeah check the back page of the supplement and just know your in for self study and chair flying!
avi8tor1983
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Well i've been so busy I havn't been able to post on progress. I am now an instrument rated pilot. My checkride was really tough. I logged 1.3 on the hobbs and that consited of 3 approaches, a hold and unuseual attitudes. It was pretty intense. Now i'm on my cross country phase and starting them hopefully tomarrow morning. The wx here at GKY hasn't been the best as of lately with 1000 foot celings or lower for the past couple days. Well i'm off to more study and i'm kicking myself in the butt for not doing my writtens before I got here. I have a commercial written, CFI and FOI to do before i'm done with my cross countries and I also have this CFI pre test thing that ATP gives you to compleate before I head off to jax or alabama. It took me about an hour and a half just to do two pages of it. Its very time consuming. Well I will keep you all posted on any other progress.
turbomax97
What can brown do for you?
Errrhmmm.....Thought my gky folks taught ya better:insane: ... man I miss gky - hopefully I'll be out of the pit and down there end of this week....
Captain_Bob
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Every school teaches it slightly differently... The one thing we can all agree on is getting the aircraft under control.
The ATP checklist doesn't have the boost pumps on the initial "flow". More important to get the plane under control... then start troubleshooting. Incidently... the boost pumps are on the engine failure troubleshooting checklist.
Bob
SIUav8er
Narcosis
only thing i can say is read the Seminole AFM...boost pumps on is in the trouble shoot checklist.
avi8tor1983
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Hmm well sorry about the whole FLAPS UP GEAR UP thing. I just forgot to type that in there. I thought I had put 22 inches MP in there, but the reason for putting 22" and then 23 and then 22" again is because you loose an inch when pulling the props back....
turbomax97
What can brown do for you?
And it is in the ATP checklist as well for the troubleshoot checklist.
Below 3000 feet however, it's more important to get the aircraft under control at such a lower altitude so we go straight from Identify, verify, to Prop feather and mixt cutoff instead of the troubleshoot checklist.
avi8tor1983
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Well i'm done with my X/C phase. It was pretty intence. 2 weeks and i've already built up that 75 hours and that was with 3 days off. I never really got the chance to go anywhere to interesting. I have been to San Angelo, TX, Houston, TX, El Paso, TX, Milington, TN, Springfeild, MO, Alexandria, LA, Pheonix, AZ(I flew there in the jet. I logged 3 landings! freekin sweet!) and some po dunk town in kansas. All in all things are going well. I have to get my commercial written done by wednesday and FOI and FIA done by Sat as i'm leaving for CFI school this coming sunday(Not tomarrow). I will say that ATP is pretty smart for doing the cross countries like we did. I encounterd a number of things that I didn't think would happen. Flew almost dead into a building thunderstorm, IMC the whole way and encounterd some nice 300 foot drops and rises in ALT. Pretty intence when you see that VSI go up to 1500 fpm in about .2 seconds and then plunge down to 2000 fpm decent. I have to say the jet ride was awsome. We stopped in El paso so I could land, we had a good crosswind and I was told that I did really well the first two times so I figured that 2 would be all I would get. The instructor said that my second one was great so lets do it one more time and I landed all on my lonesome also he let me taxi to the tie downs witch mad me feel pretty nifty. We flew back from Pheonix in a Seminhole haha. Took 6 freekin hours with a stop in el paso. Well I best get back to the books. Hope everyone else that has started is doing well!
avi8tor1983
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Wow I havn't posted in forever. But I'm DONE! Have been for about 2 weeks now anyhow. 92 days and thats with my instrument checkride pushed back a week for weather and my multi commercial pushed back a week for weather. Let me tell you my last 2 weeks were nuts! I had 4 checkrides in 7 days. Commercial single, CFI initial, CFII and CFI single in that order. The craziest thing about it was I had my CFI initial down in Ft. Lauderdale and I got a call at 730pm with a distpactch telling my me CFII was the next moring at 10 am! I was in a little shock but I got thru it. Went thru the whole program without busting one checkride. I do have to say that if you go the ATP route its intence and can be very frustrating. Just drive on thru it and you will have no problems. I am not working for them however. 1 being my son is here in OK and 2 I don't wana be a slave! :laff:....Good luck to anyone who started after me and Good luck to guys at GKY and watch out for the Derkas. I'm back in OK instructing and loving every min of it.