ATP Alumni Case Study
David Phung: Flying is a Form of Art
Why He Chose ATP: Airline-oriented training — we follow what airlines actually do.
Career Change
The Problem
Finding the best path for a career change.
For David, his passion for flying was born from art.
“I came into aviation from a completely different world.” David spent years in the music industry, creating alongside world renowned artists. He saw firsthand how music has the ability to break down barriers, bringing together people from different cultures.
Having friends and family all throughout the world, he realized that he had a “genuine love for traveling” and sought to pursue a career that would allow him to do more of it. He says that aviation would give him the opportunity to “play a more direct and tangible role in connecting people across the world.”
Coming from a completely different industry, David needed to find the right path to turn that passion into a professional career in aviation.
Choosing ATP
The Solution
ATP's fast-paced, structured training.
After exploring what options he had to start his journey, David chose ATP Flight School as his first step for “its fast-paced structure and strong sense of community.”
ATP offers a faster training timeline where students fly three to four times per week, with hundreds of students finishing the program under the 9-month timeline. Being surrounded by people who were committed and working toward the same goal as him created an environment that naturally pushed him to improve.
Through ATP's fast-paced structure of training and strong sense of community, David found a path that could take him from an entirely different world and prepare him for a career in aviation.
A New Career
The Outcome
Turning a new passion into a career.
For David, ATP provided the training environment and path he was looking for as he made the transition from music into aviation.
David shares that ATP Flight School's career track program “was exactly what I was looking for—and looking back, it delivered and more.”
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