ATP Facts
As of Thursday, November 20, 2008
When you compare the scale of ATP’s flight training operations to other flight schools, academies, colleges and FBOs, there's no wonder why ATP is leading provider of pilots to the regional airlines.
- Flight Time: Over 11,000 hours of flight training and nationwide cross-country flight experience per month.
- Certification: Over 4,500 FAA certificates issued annually.
- Aircraft: 140 aircraft. 90 multi-engine, 56 single-engine, 1 Citation Jet.
- Aircraft Orders: 10 new multi-engine Piper Seminoles to be delivered in 2008. 20 Diamond D-JETs on-order.
- Flight Training Devices (FTDs): 36 multi-engine FTDs.
- Regional Jet FTDs: 5 CRJ-200 FTDs (Dallas, Jacksonville, & Phoenix)
- Graduates: Over 40 Commercial Multi-Engine Pilots with CFIs graduate per month.
- Airline Placement: 313 graduates hired by airlines in the last twelve months.
- Locations: 21 flight school locations across the U.S.
- U.S. Market: ATP trains only U.S. pilots for the regional airlines–no distractions from international students.
- Reputation: 70% of ATP’s students are referred by friends.
- Flight Instructors: ATP Flight Instructors are the highest-paid entry-level CFIs in the country, with more multi-engine experience than any other flight instructors of comparable total time.
- Value: No other flight school or flight training academy offers a better value than ATP’s fixed-cost, fixed time frame Airline Career Pilot Program.
- Mechanics: ATP’s mechanics are the most experienced and highest paid in the flight training industry. On average, each ATP mechanic has been with ATP over five years.
- Maintenance Centers: Five maintenance centers in Atlanta, Dallas, Jacksonville, Phoenix, and Riverside handle routine maintenance and scheduled inspections on ATP’s entire fleet. An on-site inventory of engines, propellers, avionics, and other components means that no ATP airplane ever waits for a part.
- Bottom Line: ATP trains airline-ready pilots from zero time to 500 TT/300 ME with Regional Jet Standards Certification in as little as 10 months.
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2008 Outlook
- ATP will be positioned to deliver over 100,000 flight hours and up to 800 airline-ready pilots.
2009 Outlook
- ATP receives 20 D-JETs for career training. Each graduate will have a type rating and 50 hours of PIC jet experience.
- ATP will be positioned to deliver over 150,000 flight hours and over 1000 airline-ready pilots.

