My first day in the classroom was yesterday. There I met a few other pilots I know who are taking the opportunity to swtich from aircraft. All were on the plane I used to fly and in the same predictament. We lived local but were commuting. Silly. There were 4 of them. In addition to [...]

The studying has begun. My airline uses home based study for the first portion of training. I log onto a website and click through slides. Mind numbing. Very monotone voice reads text to me. I did a similar course when I first started 4 years ago. The systems are similar to what my last plane [...]

I had a great two days teaching the ATP RJ Course. I forgot how much I truly love teaching. My college plans were to originally become a High School teacher. My last semester I was student teaching and realized I never wanted to teach High School. When I was a CFI I loved teaching. Seeing [...]

Tomorrow night at this time I will be sitting in a simulator. From what the training scheduler told me I am paired up with a new hire instead of a Captain. This will be interesting. It’s only training (I get extra training since I was gone over my normal recurrent training month), but it helps [...]

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 [...]