Eastsider

I'm getting ready to fire off some applications to a couple of the companies that are currently offering the course as I missed the boat last summer with the new requirements for the written. I know, tisk, tisk...everyone knew it was coming and I should have done it last year, however, I had circumstances that did not allow it.

Couple questions for those that have completed the program or are aware of how it works:

How did the company incorporate the training in regards to the rest of the training timeline?

Where did you complete the training and were you paid and/or holding a sen number?

How would you describe the course in general? Did you feel it was stressful combining it with your new hire training? Was it well presented and professionally ran?

How prepared were you already to pass the written? (meaning, did you go in having pre studied the question bank)

Thanks in advance to all the helpful folks here!



























































































































































































































When did you receive you sen number?

FaceBiten

Thank you for hitting the return button 389 times before typing your last question.

colonials13

Bahahahahahaha. I needed that

24/48

Coming from the "Head Troll"

tinman1

Let's be honest FB, the only thing you own here is a horrible reputation and the title of "Chief Executive Troll," which you successfully lowered yourself to over in the main Mesa thread. Now run along and go play with your Skybesties...

To the OP, I'm not aware of that many regionals with a CTP program in place (XJT?). I do know of a few flight schools that are selling the program (Aerosim, ERAU, ATP) to the newest batch of the young, naive SJS crowd. I am not that familiar with the CTP program and what it entails, but I would bet my left nut that as long as airline pilot hopefuls are paying for the course out of their own pockets then the regionals will have no desire or need to develop their own respective programs. The way I see it, this is no different than the old PFT schemes of the past.

Please don't shell out the coin for one of these programs. Let a future employer bear the cost of training their employees to the standard required for the job.

Eastsider

Sorry for the mishap on the format. I didn't realize what happened until it was too late.

Currently, TSA, XJT, and SKYW are all offering courses for free. I've been in contact with a few others that are very close. Soon, I'm guessing they all will. (regionals, that is)

And yes, I agree, no pilot should pay one cent for this. This is why I am limited to the companies listed above for now.

tinman1

Word. Best of luck man!

SMACFUM

I just wanted to quote this again

Eastsider

Funny...even though I gooned it up, at least it's entertaining a few. Any feedback to the original content (not the ridiculous way it was presented) would be greatly appreciated.

FaceBiten

There are so few who have done it, and the number of posters here is a tiny fraction of the regional airline pilot population, so you probably won't get much, if any, help for a little while until more go through it. But the best guess I can give you is, if it is an in house CTP, your seniority number will be given for the date you are hired (when you start working for the company, not when they agree to hire you). If they pay for you to go to one of those flight schools to do it prior to your class date, your seniority number is probably only going to start when you get on property (i.e. start your company indoc class).

I'm guessing they incorporate it into indoc or some other time at the beginning of class, because they aren't gonna pay for you to go thru sims only to then hook the written and then have to fire or retrain you.

No guesses for the rest, but all my mil buddies who did sheppard air prep got mid-high 90s and were in and out in 30-45 mins. Thats after studying (memorizing) for 3 straight days or so. If the gouge that shep air has is still good since these new shenanigans came into being, I'd do all that memorizing before you start and then refresh before you take the written. While the material that is covered in the CTP is important to know as a pilot, the written is the written, and there are tried and true ways of taking it and acing it...unless they changed it significantly with the new one, and the old tried and true methods are no longer valid. The support at shep air could probably answer that for you.