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Flight Time
* 250 Hours Logged Time
* including 50 Hours Logged Multi-Engine, Full-Motion, Level 2, Airline-Style Simulator
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 $34,999. 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 26 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) $9,999.50 3) $9,999.50. 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 up to $38,000 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 20%) 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 MULTI ENGINE PREP (1 Week) The next step will be the challenge of flying multi engine aircraft. Learn to deal with double the speed, double the work load and double the
trouble. But, that's O.K. you have been thoroughly prepared to this point. And you will have fun advancing through this exciting step up.
- Instruction in a multi-engine, full-motion Level 2, airline-style flight simulator
- Multi engine ground training
- Pre and postflight ground briefings, one-on-one with an instructor
Step 5 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 6 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
Step 7 MULTI-ENGINE ROUTE FLYING (Multi-crew training program) (1 Week) You'll be teamed with another crew member for mission-oriented training, emphasizing the Crew Resource
Management techniques vital to your airline career. The multi-crew training program is a unique method for polishing your professional pilot status. 40 Hours multi-engine, airline-style, full-motion, Level
2 flight simulator
Step 8 AIRLINE PREPARATION PROGRAM (1 Weeks) Designed specifically to airline specifications, the Airline Prep Program is the bridge from your training to your readiness for the
airline flying job. You get a strong introduction to the fast-paced world of airline aviation in advanced flight simulators, CRM, airline flows and procedures.
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