pljenkins
Resident Knucklehead
Greetings, aviators!
Okay, so here I am looking at my options for flight training, and I've narrowed it down to a couple that I'd like to go look at. I'm having trouble putting something into perspective between two of them, though.
Basically, I'm looking at Pan Am and ATP. Now, there's quite a disconnect as I can see between the two. Now let me preface this by saying that I already have my Private and about 115 hours total time in the books.
Now, Pan AM offers the Career Pilot program. This program will take me 38 weeks (considering my PPL will allow me to skip the Private portion but not the cross country portion), and will cost approximately $47,200. But it might cost $50,000. or $42,000. At the end, I'll have almost 400 hours, 180 of which are multi, and the chance to be an instructor at the school...
ATP offers a career program too. Their program will take 12 weeks, will cost $35,500 (includes the examiner fees), no more, no less. At the end of this program, I'll have about 320 hours, 140 of which will be multi (I don't think counting 50 hours of an FTD as multi is legit, correct me if I'm wrong), and the chance to be an instructor at the school...
At the end of either program, I have an MEII and alot of job prospects, but no job. Granted the only guarentees in this life are death and taxes, so don't think this is a "who's gonna GUARENTEE me a job" post. I'm not that naive, but I'm trying to figure out why in the world, given the choice, I would go to Pan Am, spend twice as long and $10K more money to hit the same target?
Please don't take this post as a "Pan Am sucks" rant.. That's not it at all.. I imagine there's got to be some added value here.. I just ain't seein' it!
Paul
Okay, so here I am looking at my options for flight training, and I've narrowed it down to a couple that I'd like to go look at. I'm having trouble putting something into perspective between two of them, though.
Basically, I'm looking at Pan Am and ATP. Now, there's quite a disconnect as I can see between the two. Now let me preface this by saying that I already have my Private and about 115 hours total time in the books.
Now, Pan AM offers the Career Pilot program. This program will take me 38 weeks (considering my PPL will allow me to skip the Private portion but not the cross country portion), and will cost approximately $47,200. But it might cost $50,000. or $42,000. At the end, I'll have almost 400 hours, 180 of which are multi, and the chance to be an instructor at the school...
ATP offers a career program too. Their program will take 12 weeks, will cost $35,500 (includes the examiner fees), no more, no less. At the end of this program, I'll have about 320 hours, 140 of which will be multi (I don't think counting 50 hours of an FTD as multi is legit, correct me if I'm wrong), and the chance to be an instructor at the school...
At the end of either program, I have an MEII and alot of job prospects, but no job. Granted the only guarentees in this life are death and taxes, so don't think this is a "who's gonna GUARENTEE me a job" post. I'm not that naive, but I'm trying to figure out why in the world, given the choice, I would go to Pan Am, spend twice as long and $10K more money to hit the same target?
Please don't take this post as a "Pan Am sucks" rant.. That's not it at all.. I imagine there's got to be some added value here.. I just ain't seein' it!
Paul