Airline Career Pilot Program students participate in a variety of flight training lessons on a full-time schedule, requiring a full-time commitment, to become a successful pilot. Activities include guided independent study, flight lessons, Advanced Aviation Training Devices (AATD) simulator training, ATP Elevate Ground School, and ground lessons.
For nine months you will be immersed in aviation as you train full time on the fastest track to becoming an airline pilot. Total immersion training allows you to immediately advance to new subject matter once a topic or skill is mastered. This will increase your proficiency, while saving you time and money.
During a typical week at ATP Flight School, you will train five to seven days per week and participate in a variety of flight training activities and lessons. ATP strives to provide you two days off each week, however, students must be available for training seven days per week to keep you on schedule.
For the first two weeks of the private pilot and instrument stages of training, you’ll attend ATP Elevate ground school, full-time for five days per week.
After that, each day is a combination of guided independent study, group study with fellow students, AATD simulator lessons, and flight lessons. In coordination with Training Support, your instructor will schedule events based on the program outline, training stage, and upcoming deadlines. Weather, examiner availability, and a variety of other factors all impact your schedule, when you fly, and can lengthen or shorten your program timeline.
Learn to fly in the world's largest and newest flight training fleet. Take the controls of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, Piper Archer, and the multi-engine Piper Seminole for over 240 hours of total flight time.
Connect with fellow students across the country in ATP's exclusive interactive, instructor-led ATP Elevate Ground School. Sessions are delivered virtually during the private, instrument, and CFI stages.
Working with your instructor, you'll learn procedures, practice maneuvers, and simulate emergencies in Advanced Aviation Training Devices (AATDs). When not in use, you'll also be able to practice in ATP's simulators for free, as often as you'd like!
Utilize ATP's guided online courseware, training modules, supplements, and books for independent reading, studying, research, "chair flying," and more.
Receive foundational instruction in aircraft instruments, systems, aerodynamics, airport operations and weather planning in both one-on-one and group ground lessons.
