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1. #PART TIME PILOT TRAINING DALLAS HOW TO#
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Even with that, several people fail first attempt. This is entirely inadequate preparation for becoming a high-quality CFI, which is why they only do this portion of the course in two locations (as of when I was there) - the FSDOs at these locations utilize DPEs that are the easiest to pass initial CFI with. Two flights in the PA-44 at 2 hours each, of which if you don't check off all of the ~30 boxes you're on the hook for more flight time because that's all you were allocated. Four days of "ground school", two focused on regulations and endorsements and two practicing mock orals on teaching different topics. These kids become instructors, have their eyes set on the 1500 hour mark, and tend to do the bare minimum required. Granted, anywhere you go, you'll have good instructors and bad ones, but the typical demographic of ATP is early 20-somethings with low maturity and little to no work experience. Instructor quality is also generally subpar. And many don't really know anything anyway, they simply tell you to go look it up in the references mentioned in your lesson.

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Instructors may help you when they have free time, but many don't because they aren't paid for ground time with you outside of that which is directly attached to a flight. Ground is non-existent at most locations. Flying Oct-Mar? You get winter flight experience, but not much with thunderstorms, high density altitudes due to heat, etc. When you burn through training in six months, you haven't experienced half of the flying you're likely to do, especially in places like Denver. Low cost instructor housing ($0-300/month)Īlmost 0 single engine night flying *except for 3 pvt hrs ✈Ībility to reach the airlines in ~2 years: 10/10Īmazing equipment, CE-172 s / PA-44-180's Sitting at ~800 hours, grinding for the magical 1500. At this point, I'm playing the waiting game. Less than a year after soloing an aircraft, I've been hired by Compass Airlines at only 500 hours. Instructor life here isn't too bad and the tuition reimbursement programs are awesome. I took the flight instructor route and am currently an instructor. With some wx delays and checkride availability, I was able to finish the program in 6.5 months. After the Private phase, the program is like drinking from 4 fire hoses. After two months of flying, some poor DPE gave me my wings. The price was reasonable since I'd be making that captain salary that much sooner. They also proposed 8 certificates in 6 months. I chose ATP because of their advertisements regarding 0-airline pilot in 2 years. I started my journey to the airlines in Oct of 2015 at ATP Flight School in California.

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