ATP Flight School reviews

3.3

53% would recommend to a friend

(152 total reviews)

Justin Dennis

54% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

ATP Flight School has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 152 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ATP Flight School employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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152 reviews
1.0
Jul 27, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Planes are new and well maintained. The online system is well designed and helps manage your students and your schedule.

Cons

Low hours, they say you should be getting about 80 a month but good luck ever getting close. Pay is abysmal, during COVID they took away the higher paying structure and even though they are doing better than ever now, they haven't increased the pay. No adjustment for inflation either. Good luck affording to live if you don't have parents who can pay your bills, especially when they don't give you enough hours to even get close to making enough money. Be prepared to attended many unpaid, mandatory meetings. Interesting how you can be an "independent contractor" but forced to attended these. You will also be expected to do at least 2-4 hours of unpaid grounds per student per week. The culture isn't great, there's a frat-like environment at the training center. Constantly problems of instructors bad mouthing their students out in the open. If you aren't a favorite of management you won't even hear about opportunities for advancement here. The simulators are broken more often than not, so be prepared to come into work and not get paid that day because all the open sims are now down.

1.0
Jul 16, 2018

ATP does not give a hoot about anything other than your money

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

-get through the program fast

Cons

-Get through the program fast. -Poor instruction from people that just went through the same type of instruction. -If you get linked up with a poor instructor, you are going to have a bad time. -ATP sent me across the country for all of my check rides. No DPE availability in the training center that you trained in? We will send you to an area you have never been, and link you up with an unreasonable and crazy DPE. -Pay is all up front -Unreasonable hourly rates -If you are not prepared/feel ready for a check ride, ATP will boot you. -Getting extra flight time is next to impossible. -Management does not care about their instructors or students. Only the 'image' and marketing scheme of the company. -I'm so upset I came here. Should have stuck with a Mom & Pop shop, or a flying club instead.

5.0
Jun 24, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Brand new planes- we had 2016 model planes, then 2017, then 2018. The most recent planes are straight from cessna and haven't even had time to get ATP painted. Flying a 500,000 dollar plane with 000.0 hours is an amazing experience Coworkers- The staff at ATP is amazing. There's 20 instructors at my location and I can safely say I love them all. Sometimes there's an unpleasant instructor but they get weeded out pretty fast. The Program- This isn't a mom and pop store where they play things by ear. Every part of the program is agonized over and tested. Every rule has a backstory, every lesson has implications, and every detail has meaning. ATP has a reputation to uphold. If they don't they wont have business; so it's in ATP's best interest to have student's success at heart.

Cons

-The pay is terrible. I had 0/30 days off last month. Working my butt off, I'll make 27,000. -You're disposable. So you're a pilot with 200 hours? Reality check, you're a dime a dozen. Slip up and you can be on the chopping block. Sometimes it feels like ATP fires people for no reason. I know there's always two sides to every story, but us instructors always feel like termination is always an option. It's really bad for moral. -Sometimes student's suck, but you're stuck with them. At a different flight school, I can work with whom I chose. At my location, I'm assigned a student, and even if he's the worst pilot ever, he's my headache. Training department will work with you, (they're a bunch of great people) but you're still the conduit for which ATP talks to the student. I've had some pretty bad students and they really make your life miserable. If they suck, ATP looks at them and then they look at who's teaching them.

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