Riverside,Ca ATP

Hopeful Aviator said:
Looking for replies from the folks who went there and how your experiance was.

Thanks!
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The Riverside location is fine. I've seen few other ATP locations that are better. The instructors are cool enough and the equipment (simulator, planes, facility, etc.) is descent for being as far away from ATP headquarters (Jacksonville, FL) as we are.

My biggest Pro about Riverside is the flying areas. You are flying in L.A.'s backyard and if you can coax your instructor into making a few trips to San Diego, Long Beach, Van Nuys, Palmdale, etc., you will get to see some cool stuff. As most people state, if you can fly in L.A., you can fly just about anywhere. Only Dallas and perhaps Atlanta are other ATP locations in the U.S. of equal controlled chaos airspace-wise. Eventually, you will fly to Sacramento--everyone does during the 90-day program. Go out west towards Santa Barbara and then up along the coast to Monterrey and San Francisco then across Napa--that flight is spectacular!

The biggest Con is perhaps the apartments. They are located too far from the airport and are not as well taken care of as other ATP locations I have seen. As far as the location / distance from the airport (about 9 miles), it's the traffic and stoplights that will get to you after awhile. You will probably eat out too much since you can't just run to the apartment and grab a bite to eat at "home" like you can at the Dallas and Vegas locations.

As far as the apartments themselves, come prepared to do some cleaning. The students, myself included, have been surprised when we show up and have to spend pretty much the entire day cleaning the place you'll be living in for the next three months. If you can get apartment #77, awesome (we tried to take care of that place); if you get #182, yikes!

Overall, I think you will like the Riverside location. After doing my cross-countries out to Jacksonville and back there were few locations I saw that were better. Bring lots of cash for the cross-countries (for taxi fare) and the check rides ($450 a ride), bring a sleeping bag, and come prepared to be immersed in aviation for the next 90-days. Finally, despite the negatives, study hard and enjoy your time there, I know I did.
 
lol, dude I ended up getting 182, Keith in here had that apartment before me yeah I took soemtiem cleaning it up, A guy in the 90 day was suposed to live there but he is alread from RIV so he doesnt go there, I slepth there only once, since having it, a quite attractive female finishing up her CFI stuff is there right now heh. but yeah the disadvatage is defantly the distance to the airport.
 
I trained and instructed there, liked it allot. As stated before the aprartments are 20 min away from the airport, but they are in a decsent part of town with a strip mall close by with a grocery store and some resturants. It's too bad students are moving into dirty apartments, the instructors should be making sure the students clean before they leave. I think you'll enjoy Rivertucky, have fun.
 
musicmixer said:
I trained and instructed there, liked it allot. As stated before the aprartments are 20 min away from the airport, but they are in a decsent part of town with a strip mall close by with a grocery store and some resturants. It's too bad students are moving into dirty apartments, the instructors should be making sure the students clean before they leave. I think you'll enjoy Rivertucky, have fun.
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I live locally so apartments wont be a problem.

How many hours / mo did you accumlate there as a instructor before you moved on?

Where there a steady flow of students?
 
Hopeful Aviator said:
I live locally so apartments wont be a problem.

How many hours / mo did you accumlate there as a instructor before you moved on?

Where there a steady flow of students?
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I instructed there for a year. It was slow for me the first 6 months, the second 6 months I was very busy. If you are a add-on instructor, plan on getting alot of hours quickly. There usually is a steady flow of students but sometimes it does get a little slow or they have to many instructors working there at one time. I moved on to ASA with around 750tt.
 
musicmixer said:
I instructed there for a year. It was slow for me the first 6 months, the second 6 months I was very busy. If you are a add-on instructor, plan on getting alot of hours quickly. There usually is a steady flow of students but sometimes it does get a little slow or they have to many instructors working there at one time. I moved on to ASA with around 750tt.
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it took you a year to get 450 hours? slacker.....
 
musicmixer said:
Yep, I got like 10 hours one month, times were slow when I started. How long did you instruct at ATP before you did that first officer program at Gulfstream Academy in Florida?
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Hey dont knock GIA. 35k was the best money i spent. It got me a job flying crjs for 20 bucks an hour for the first year and a whopping 24 the next. So who feels stupid now?!! I am flying JETS!
 
CaptainChris87 said:
lol, dude I ended up getting 182, Keith in here had that apartment before me yeah I took soemtiem cleaning it up, A guy in the 90 day was suposed to live there but he is alread from RIV so he doesnt go there, I slepth there only once, since having it, a quite attractive female finishing up her CFI stuff is there right now heh. but yeah the disadvatage is defantly the distance to the airport.
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Hey man, gimme a break! I had the cleanest appartment there! haha

As for the question, I think Riverside is one of the better ATP locations. During my cross countries, I had the oppertunity to see 9 other locations and riverside definately has one of the better facilities. Its one of the larger offices which is pretty nice. Plus you get to train in the LA airspace which is a huge plus due it being some of the busiest in the country.
 
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