ATP Questions (New here)

Airline Pilot Questions & Answers
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I live in San Diego for reference. (Please take that info when answering)

I do have a couple questions about ATP Flight School In San Diego and just in general:

  • What percentage of students get hired by ATP?
  • ATP Instructor pay?
  • Cost of flight school from the root?
  • How much time does it take from getting your cfi to getting 1500 hours on average?
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Gabe,

  1. Honestly I don’t know the percentage and it can vary based on a number of factors. What you should know is a) do well in the program and act professionally throughout and you will be offered a position, and b) there’s no guarantee that position will be at the location you trained at. ATP staffs location based on student need and they will not overload a location. Also many pilots choose not to instruct and seek other jobs to build their time.

  2. Instructor pay is performance based but the average is about $3600mo. This of course can vary based on enrollment throughout the year.

  3. The program cost from zero time is $108,995 plus a $3000 premium for San Diego.

  4. Obviously it can vary but the average is 1.5yrs.

Many of these answers (plus must more info) is available on the ATP website. If you’re serious about the program I recommend you spend some quality time on there.

Adam

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Gabe,

  1. I can confidently say that every single instructor at ATP is a former graduate. Many students choose to go their own path and flight instructor elsewhere or find a P91/135 gig in the meantime while they wait for a location and/or that’s the path they choose. Flight instructing is not for everyone and it can be scary for some, there’s many avenues you can take to build time.

  2. Becoming an instructor for ATP is competitive (to a degree), especially if you are wanting to go to one of the ‘premium’ locations. As an instructor at ATP, you are opened to many benefits and incentives not only from company (from quality performance), but airline partnerships and tuition reimbursement programs. As Adam said, the average pay monthly comes around the $3,000 figure. Below is a screenshot and link for the CFI position I found through ATP’s website:

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  1. Depending on your work ethic and influx of students, I would say anywhere between 1.5 - 2 years of being an active CFI. ATP strives for instructors to fly at 70 hours a month. I’ll leave you with some homework (and research). At the conclusion of ATP, you will have how many hours of flight time (airplane)? Do the subtraction of 1,500 from your research, and then divide that by an average number of flying hours you could receive monthly and that’ll give you your length of time to reach minimums.

As Adam said, all of these questions can be found throughout the various links above, I recommend spending just a little quality time on ATP’s website and checking the forum’s Student Experiences and Q&A section out in detail.

Brady