Check rides. An hour or two (or more!) of your life that shows just a sample of your knowledge and abilities. Kind of unfair. We all have bad days. If a bad day conicidies with a check ride it could haunt you for the rest of your career. I’m no Superman. Just an average guy, [...]

Slooooow times for me. Flew 2 hours last week. Sat airport reserve 4 days….32 hours. I’ve discussed in the past that I did all my flight training at AllATPs. I did the Self Paced Program for both the Private and the Airline Career Pilot Program. I started with 0 hours on May 5, 2006 and [...]

I showed up for Jury Duty yesterday…waited around for 3 hours…got picked for a Jury that was called in at 9 AM today. I was initially worried about losing money. Once I got home I checked my contract….I get full pay for each day. After a quick call to crew scheduling I was cleared for [...]

I’ve always been more than a little skeptical of Gulfstream International. For those that don’t know they are a flight school and an airline. Those wishing to be pilots can pay Gulfstream an ungodly amount of money for training and then be “hired” as a First Officer getting paid an extremely substandard rate to fly [...]

I think this is a waste of a lawsuit. Two planes collided while training on a beautiful VFR day. Planes have unfortunetly collided many times since man first took to the skies. The “see and avoid” method normally works….this time it didn’t. Family of pilot who died in midair crash sues flight school /* * [...]

,My name is XXXX XXXXXX. I wanted to know if I could have a moment of your time for a few questions. I am a student enrolled in an aerospace program as a professional pilot. I currently have my private pilots license and I am working on my instrument rating currently. The program at my [...]