Which ATP location for CFI program?
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MD-11Loader
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I recently completed CFI at LZU. Initial ride was at FXE with Tom Inglima, CFII and CFI were back at LZU with Fred Houston. It took 27 days all together. We had a large class, and the class before us was slowed down due to the tropical storm in Florida. Danno was a great instructor, and Ace did the finish up ratings. We had four days of organized classroom activity and then were on our own. My buddy and I chose not to do the group study option, or group lesson plans. We wrote our own. I passed all three on the first try, he busted initial on FOI stuff.
bambamgp
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Today i passed my initial MEI, first try, i feel so relieved. I went to CFI school at LZU, Danno is not the instructor anymore, i think he got an airline job.. Now they have Chris, who is an outstanding instructor. We had 5 days of classroom and then on our own but the instructor was always there to answer our questions or to critique and evaluate our lessons. We did group study a lot and it definitely helped us.
MD-11Loader
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I live in ATL, so I can't speak for the housing. The guys seemed to be ok with it. I scheduled my class in March, and started the third week of June.
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I'm strongly considering the ATP 21 day CFI program to finish up with my CFI. I've noticed they now run it in Dallas, as well. (GKY?)
Don't know if anyone will read this who's flown there, but regardless, I was wondering if anyone has any input on what the schedule of training looks like, how ready they expect you to be coming in, and how intensive the study is? (ie. since I'm taking a month away from my "day job", but my "day job" also happens to have some physical assets in Dallas, is there a chance I could keep up with work during the process, or would it take 100% of my time and attention (Which I'm fine with...)?)
It's hard to decide whether to pull the trigger on this, mostly just due to the time commitment. The other option is Sheble, but ATP beats them out handily on price and quality of equipment.
Sorry if this is a bit of a threadjack, but I'm not sure where else to seek information, and there's almost -nothing- except for generic boilerplate promotional materials available from ATP. I even requested an infopack, and basically received a hard copy of the CFI program webpage on glossy cardboard, and the generic 'be an airline pilot now! Take our regional jet standardization course' pamphlet.
-Fox
Don't know if anyone will read this who's flown there, but regardless, I was wondering if anyone has any input on what the schedule of training looks like, how ready they expect you to be coming in, and how intensive the study is? (ie. since I'm taking a month away from my "day job", but my "day job" also happens to have some physical assets in Dallas, is there a chance I could keep up with work during the process, or would it take 100% of my time and attention (Which I'm fine with...)?)
It's hard to decide whether to pull the trigger on this, mostly just due to the time commitment. The other option is Sheble, but ATP beats them out handily on price and quality of equipment.
Sorry if this is a bit of a threadjack, but I'm not sure where else to seek information, and there's almost -nothing- except for generic boilerplate promotional materials available from ATP. I even requested an infopack, and basically received a hard copy of the CFI program webpage on glossy cardboard, and the generic 'be an airline pilot now! Take our regional jet standardization course' pamphlet.
-Fox
crfguy51
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Don't know much about GKY specifics, but the syllabus and basic operation is the same throughout.
Don't expect to be spoon-fed information a commercial pilot should know. They will cover endorsements, record keeping, FOI, Teaching Safely in a Multi, and brush on some areas commonly found deficient, PTS is the syllabus for the ground...to a point. 4 Days of ground, 8-5ish, groups usually study until late in the evening. Depending on what program (15 hours guys fly CFII prep before the MEI for the time) you could be doing early morning or afternoon flights in addition to the ground school. If it's hot, flights go pretty early.
100% Dedication while you're there, it's actually a 14 day syllabus. The extra week is for checkride/WX issues.
It's a very efficient way of getting it done, but if you don't come in prepared, or can't preform to the certificates you hold I could see where that could cause problems.
I think it's a good program for the right person. If you need remedial groundschool or don't know the Seminole well it might benefit you to do the CMulti in one, or seek instruction before showing up.
Make sure you are instrument proficient as well.
Don't expect to be spoon-fed information a commercial pilot should know. They will cover endorsements, record keeping, FOI, Teaching Safely in a Multi, and brush on some areas commonly found deficient, PTS is the syllabus for the ground...to a point. 4 Days of ground, 8-5ish, groups usually study until late in the evening. Depending on what program (15 hours guys fly CFII prep before the MEI for the time) you could be doing early morning or afternoon flights in addition to the ground school. If it's hot, flights go pretty early.
100% Dedication while you're there, it's actually a 14 day syllabus. The extra week is for checkride/WX issues.
It's a very efficient way of getting it done, but if you don't come in prepared, or can't preform to the certificates you hold I could see where that could cause problems.
I think it's a good program for the right person. If you need remedial groundschool or don't know the Seminole well it might benefit you to do the CMulti in one, or seek instruction before showing up.
Make sure you are instrument proficient as well.