Guaranteed Instructor Job Placement
At the completion of your Fast Track Airline Career Pilot Program

After graduating from the Airline Career Pilot Program, your next step is to build experience and flight time as a flight instructor with ATP. As a Fast Track graduate, you receive guaranteed instructor job placement for 6 months, earning approximately $2,000 per month in ATP’s network of 22 training centers nationwide. ATP offers one of the most coveted flight instructor jobs in the country, where you will earn more and build multi-engine experience faster than anywhere else.

All instructor candidates will attend an Instructor Proficiency training program in Jacksonville, Florida for approximately two weeks. Candidates who demonstrate the highest level of aptitude will be placed into multi-engine and single-engine flight instructor positions. Candidates who need additional preparation will be offered ground school, simulator instructor, and scheduling positions while continuing to build proficiency. All instructors earn approximately $2,000 per month, which includes $300 to $500 in performance bonuses.

While your instructor position is guaranteed for six months, the best instructors will have the opportunity to continue working with ATP and building highly-valued multi-engine CFI flight experience.

Benefits of Instructing with ATP

• Gain ATP’s assistance with regional airline job placement.
• Build multi-engine and total time quickly to meet airline and corporate hiring minimums.
• Work with dedicated, motivated students.
• Fly the largest fleet of standardized multi-engine aircraft.
• Free housing available during proficiency flying in Jacksonville.
• Housing, furnished with no lease obligation, is available at training centers for reduced rates.
• Performance bonuses.
• 50% Discount on ATP’s Regional Jet Standards Certification Program

Eligibility & Flight Proficiency Requirements

Airline Career Pilot Program graduates must meet the following requirements to be eligible for six months of guaranteed instructor job placement:

• You must be a Fast Track Airline Career Pilot Program Graduate (Enrolled at the $44,995 course price with a start date on or after August 1, 2010. Self-Paced Program graduates are invited to apply, but are not guaranteed instructor job placement.)
• You must be capable of passing a ten-year background check, as required for airline employment.
• You must not have more than two checkride failures. Three or more checkride failures will require special review and may prevent your eligibility for guaranteed instructor job placement.
• You must demonstrate professionalism, adherence to standard operating procedures, and uncompromising attention to safety at all times.

To receive a single-engine or multi-engine flight instructor assignment with ATP, you must fly to Airline Transport Pilot standards in the right-seat of a Piper Seminole and Cessna 172. This level of proficiency is required due to the flight training demands of our customers for ATP Certificates and CFI ratings.

To ensure this level of performance, you must successfully complete a proficiency program provided by ATP at no cost to you. The Instructor Proficiency Program includes approximately 6 hours of multi-engine time, 5 hours of single-engine time, and 25 hours of multi-engine FTD time with an ATP Flight Standards Manager and Chief Pilot in Jacksonville, Florida. ATP invests approximately $6,000 into your flight proficiency to ensure you meet the high standards expected of an ATP flight instructor.

Training Center Assignments

You will have the opportunity to instruct at any of ATP’s 22 flight training centers across the nation. Training Center assignments are made based on instructor turnover, student load, and other operational objectives.

Airline Placement & Networking

Instructing at ATP gives you a tremendous networking opportunity as you work with pilots from all certification and flight experience levels ranging from U.S. military pilots; corporate pilots; regional airline pilots; independent aircraft owner/operators; and career-minded private pilot students. In the close-knit pilot community, your network will create additional opportunities which will ultimately increase your career earnings.

In the airline industry today, timing is essential. As an instructor for ATP, you will get the most opportunities to achieve your goals the fastest.

ATP Flight Instructor Alumni

As a member of the ATP Alumni network, you will be eligible to provide simulator instruction at ATP on your days off from your airline job. Typical airline schedules provide an average of 14 days off per month. Opportunities include simulator training in Seminole, Regional Jet, and D-JET FTDs. The daily rate ranges from $150 to $350 per day. As D-JETs come on-line, you will be eligible to ride as a paid observer for newly type-rated D-JET pilots. These are great ways to supplement your income during your first year of probationary pay at your airline.