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Our Guarantee
We guarantee to have our aircraft and instructional resources
orchestrated for completion of your training program within 120 days and for the price of $39,999. You must guarantee complete availability for training and studying, 24 hours per day and 7 days per
week for the 120 days. Yes, we will give you plenty of rest and days off, but Aero-Tech will schedule your time. Additionally, you guarantee to complete all prescribed training and study as
assigned.
Equipment and Instructors
Our fleet consists of 16 aircraft. They are equipped with
intercoms, autopilots, HSI and IFR approach certified GPS. We train primarily in factory-new C-172S aircraft. Many are even equipped with state of the art, glass cockpits. Complex
commercial training flights take place in Piper Arrows. Aero-Tech's own Cessna Service Center maintains our fleet to airline standards. Aero-Tech's maintenance staff is always available to resolve any
mechanical problem in a most expeditious manner. Your instructors are all experienced professionals, some with airline backgrounds, and each is accredited by the Cessna Aircraft Company.
About Simulator Training
Every major and regional airline relies on the effectiveness of simulators for pilot
training. Corporate and commercial operators pay top-dollar at name-brand sim-centers to train pilots. Even a new pilot can benefit from simulator training. Our wrap around visual system helps you to
forget that you not in the actual airplane and our unique full-motion makes your flying experience feel real. See the simulator.
Simulators provide 100% efficiency in
training by eliminating ATC delays, taxi time and set up time for instrument procedures. One hour of simulator training equates to two hours in an airplane. Practice CRM. Learn to handle all
types of situations. Our special situational training scenarios allow you to experience real flights taken from real NTSB files. Practice and rehearse instrument and emergency procedures until they
become comfortable and instinctive. Control your training environment by altering weather to suit your flight - good or bad. Day or night. Systems failures. You and your instructor control it all to
provide real training for real situations.
Prerequisites
You must possess a second-class medical, a
single-engine land, Private Pilot certificate, at least 40 hours of total time, and two years of college study, or equivalent work experience, prior to enrollment in Aero-Tech's Fast Track
Career Pilot Program.
You may obtain your Private Pilot Certificate at Aero-Tech, prior to entering the Fast Track Career Pilot Program. The cost is approximately $6,000.00. We can
provide a complete breakdown of costs and requirements. Acquiring a Private Pilot Certificate is the only possible way to ensure that you have the foundation knowledge and aviation familiarization
to decide on a flying career. A Private Pilot certificate makes it possible to make an informed decision on a professional-level career pilot program.
Once you are a Private Pilot,
Aero-Tech will administer simulator and written evaluations, and an interview to assess your aeronautical knowledge and aptitude for acceptance into the Fast Track Career Pilot Program. The cost of
the interview is $100.00 and will be conducted at the Lexington Aero-Tech Career Pilot Training Center. Following your interview, the Chief instructor will determine your acceptance by Aero-Tech for
the Fast Track Career Pilot Program.
Scheduling
Your interview may be scheduled by contacting the
Lexington Aero-Tech campus. Have your credit card ready. Courses begin every week. Upon successful completion of the interview process and your acceptance into the program, you may select a
class-start date, usually within four to six weeks, depending upon space availability. Your dispatchers will schedule your training and leisure time for maximum efficiency and learning potential.
Locations
We offer our Fast Track Career Pilot Program in Lexington, KY at the Blue Grass Airport. We find
it important that a career-pilot candidate experience commercial airport operations training environment. KLEX is serviced by a variety of reliable instrument procedures and provide for important
ATC interaction necessary for career pilots.
Accommodations
Accommodations are available in close proximity
to our airports. You are responsible for the cost of accommodations and transportation to and from school. These costs are not included in the cost of your training program. On on-staff
concierge is available to assist you in making arrangements.
Completion Time
The Fast Track Career
Pilot Program requires 120 to 150 days to complete. You must be available seven days a week, 24 hours per day for study and training. Our dispatchers will schedule plenty of rest time, but very
little social time. Your schedule may also include one or two short trips home if absolutely necessary.
Deposit
Upon successful completion of the interview process, a $1,000.00 nonrefundable, unconditional deposit, by authorized credit card or check is required to reserve your training slot. Upon
receipt of your deposit, you will be sent the required materials and a preliminary training schedule. Your deposit will be credited to your first payment.
Payment
Payment may be made in the form of check, cash, traveler's checks, or cashier's check. Credit card payments will not be
accepted. Payment will be made in three installments; 1) $15,000 due upon arrival ($14,000 since the $1,000 deposit will have been previously paid) 2) $12,499 3) $12,499. The 2nd
and 3rd payments are due every four weeks after the course start date. The course fee covers the cost of the five required written exams (IRA, CAX, FIA, FII, FOI) and flight examiners' fees.
Financing
Sallie Mae provides loans to qualified applicants. An application can be obtained from Aero-Tech. Complete
the application and return to Aero-Tech. Application processing can be completed after receipt of the evaluation fee.
Refund Policy
In the event training is terminated, a prorated refund, less training materials and administrative fees (approximately 25%) will be made within thirty days. Aero-Tech reserves
the right to cancel your training at any time your performance or attitude do not meet the standards of the Fast Track Career Pilot Program.
Why don't we include the multi-engine ratings in our program
In the past 10 years, many pop-up flight centers have begun including a lot of
multi-engine hours in their career-pilot programs. Realistically, this money is not a good investment. Frankly, although you may have multi-engine certificates in your pocket, you are not
employable as a multi-engine pilot without having the required total hours in your logbook. Your hours while flying in multi-engine aircraft are not valued by employers because it is not valuable
training at this point in your career-building. So you have the certificates, but are not eligible to rent most multi engine aircraft and are faced with the difficulties of staying multi
current. Plus, if you are not hired by the airline right away, you will be looking for employment in general aviation. Unfortunately, you do not have the solo experience in flying aircraft
required to work in general aviation.
There are certain training principals and mindset when your focus is on being the junior pilot, supervised by a senior captain on regional
airliner. Different training principals and mindset are in focus if your training assumes you to be the pilot in command and possibly supervising another pilot.
Our graduates ask
us to design a program which allows you to benefit from your skills as soon as possible. We give you sound fundamentals so that you have choices in your career. Sure, wee teach you the
multi-engine skills and give you the multi-engine experiences in the multi-engine simulator - just like the airlines do. Then, after working in the industry for 6 months or so, and accumulating
valuable solo, in-command flight experience, you can easily pick up multi-engine certificates for less than $2,000. And, now you can put your new multi-engine skills immediately to work.
Instructor Placement
Graduates are given first consideration for placement as an instructor
to work at Aero-Tech. Aero-Tech selects graduates as needed for all our locations. Our instructor pay is above national average. The majority of students who have completed Aero-Tech instructor
courses have worked with us. In addition, Aero-Tech graduates fill vacancies at flight schools all over the nation.
In Summary
Fast Track is not a program for the average student. However, if you have your heart set on an aviation career and are mature enough to complete goals on a deadline, then you
will be very pleased. We promise not to accept your enrollment unless we feel that you have the ability to be successful in the Program and as a career pilot. You can still complete all your
flight training on an accelerated pace without Fast Track - the only difference being that the price and completion date in not guaranteed.
The major airlines will lose a significant
number of pilots in upcoming years due to retirement; and airlines are expanding their fleet size. Now is the time to be professionally trained as an Airline Career Pilot. The staff at
Aero-Tech is in a unique position to provide quality training and direction to prepare you for a demanding, but exciting and rewarding career. Aero-Tech takes the difficulty out of choosing
the best school for your career training package.
What will your training look like
Are you ready to launch your dream as a professional
in aviation? Have you ever wondered what your life as a pilot-in-training would be like? Here is our 120-day Fast-Track Career Pilot Program.
Step 1 INTERVIEW AND EVALUATION (1 Day)
Step 2 INSTRUMENT RATING (4 Weeks) As your training begins, your current skill set will be polished and further developed
by earning an Instrument Rating. This intensive training segment will prepare you to fly solely by reference to the aircraft instruments without weather restrictions. Your confidence will continue to
grow as your skills and experience does. Each of our graduates spend 15 hours in the actual clouds and a variety of weather conditions.
- Instruction in a factory new 4-place Cessna Skyhawk and a full-motion, Level 2 airline-style flight simulator
- Instrument ground training
- Pre and postflight ground briefings, one-on-one with an instructor
- Instrument knowledge, oral and flight exams
Step 3 COMMERCIAL PILOT LICENSE (4 Weeks) The Commercial Pilot license training will teach you the rules of flying for hire. This flight segment will define your
abilities to fly with the highest level of safety, judgment and will give you the confidence to become part of a cockpit crew. Our unique course also includes an important Crew Resource Management module.
- Instruction in a Piper Arrow, a factory-new Skyhawk and a full-motion, Level 2, airline-style flight simulator
- Commercial/CRM ground training
- Pre and postflight ground briefings, one-on-one with an instructor
- Commercial knowledge, oral and flight exams
Step 4 FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR RATING (3 Weeks) Your Certified Flight Instructor rating will give you the ability to teach private and commercial students how to fly. Your job
as a CFI will be the best job you ever have! Some pilots spend years getting a CFI. You'll be here in just a few weeks. The instructor rating is your first exposure to flying from the right
seat. Most airline pilots begin their tenure in the right seat.
- Instruction in a Piper Arrow
- Basic Flight Instructor ground training
- Pre and postflight ground briefings, one-on-one with an instructor
- Flight Instructor knowledge exams, oral and flight exams
Step 5 INSTRUMENT INSTRUCTOR RATING (2 Weeks) The CFII advances your instructional skill. Here you will add an important line to your growing resume of professional
flying credentials. The CFII will allow you to rapidly build hours of in-weather experience as an instructor.
- Instruction in a Skyhawk
- Instrument Instructor ground training
- Pre and postflight ground briefings, one-on-one with an instructor
- Instrument-Instructor written, oral and flight exams
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