BobDDuck
Island Bus Driver
I just got back from my trip to JAX for the Gator Bowl (all you UMD fans can go burn in.... ah nevermind, we suck.) Anyhow, despite the fact the game was a complete washout, at least as far as I was concerned, I did spend a morning over at Craig Field talking to Richard Tillie (sp?) ATP's CP. He gave me the tour of the classrooms, one of the Sims the MX hangar and two AC.
I'll agree with everyone else that they seem to run a very tight ship down there. Although I did feel like I was getting a sales pitch at times ("pilots make so much money! you are picking a good career!") at times, for the most part what I heard was sincere and informative.
So here's my master plan (or plans) and I guess I would like some feed back as to who has done what and what has worked well. Any way I get there my long term goal is to CFI for ATP build lots of hours, get hired by a regional and make lots of money and get pretty women (well, the first part of all that anyways
) I'll be done with school in May and plan on starting shortly after that.
So... Plan A.
Get my PPL in the next few months while I am at school through a local FBO. Then go down to an ATP location and either do
A-1) 3 Month ACPP
A-2) 10 Month CPP while working full/part time
Plan B.
Same as Plan A but do the PPL at ATP after I graduate in May. Question about this... what option does ATP offer as far as doing a PPL at the NOT accelerated level so I could work while getting the PPL?
The major trade off I am trying to weigh is Time versus Money. I can't really go into debt 40K but at the same time I don't want to take more then 1.5 years to get to a CFI level.
Okie, if you can understand any of that let me know what you think.
Grazie.
Ethan
I'll agree with everyone else that they seem to run a very tight ship down there. Although I did feel like I was getting a sales pitch at times ("pilots make so much money! you are picking a good career!") at times, for the most part what I heard was sincere and informative.
So here's my master plan (or plans) and I guess I would like some feed back as to who has done what and what has worked well. Any way I get there my long term goal is to CFI for ATP build lots of hours, get hired by a regional and make lots of money and get pretty women (well, the first part of all that anyways
So... Plan A.
Get my PPL in the next few months while I am at school through a local FBO. Then go down to an ATP location and either do
A-1) 3 Month ACPP
A-2) 10 Month CPP while working full/part time
Plan B.
Same as Plan A but do the PPL at ATP after I graduate in May. Question about this... what option does ATP offer as far as doing a PPL at the NOT accelerated level so I could work while getting the PPL?
The major trade off I am trying to weigh is Time versus Money. I can't really go into debt 40K but at the same time I don't want to take more then 1.5 years to get to a CFI level.
Okie, if you can understand any of that let me know what you think.
Grazie.
Ethan