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I did my Integrated Airline Pilot License program training with a frozen ATPL with Atlantic Flight Training Academy, started July 2014, finished April 2016, at 4500 Cork Airport Business Park Cork Airport, Co. Cork, T12 NX7D, Ireland
The facilities are well crafted for each phase of the training, ground school in a very comfy spacious atmosphere, flight training in the heart of Cork International Airport, where you get exposed to real world environment, dealing with other bigger, faster and heavier traffics, changing frequencies from ground, tower, approach and center. Staying situational aware and vigilant at all times for your other flew aviators using the same skies as yourself. The high class simulator not only help the transaction from GA environment to Airline jets, but it is also all you need for your feature assessments and type rating training preparations.
All instructors are professionals and they know exactly what you need to know at your training stage, they’ll not overwhelm you with stuff that is not required for your current level, my favorites are, Gerard Dooly, Brain Smith, Alan Walsh and Sean Salttery. Don’t want to make this too long as I can go forever naming all the amazing instructors I’ve met during my training.
ATAF were always there for me from the get go, until this very moment, they’ve never stopped providing help, assistance and advises whenever needed or asked for, they’re always there without hesitation nor delays, even when I got type rated and flew for an airline company, I always fall back to get advises and suggestions from AFTA about any technicalities I encounter.
Things you’ll feel at AFTA from the 1st glimpse, is as if you’re the only student there, you’ll feel that you are always their number one priority and your needs are met.
In no time you’ll feel that everybody at AFTA from the janitors all the way to the CEO and all those in between are your family, how they talk to you, how they care about your ups and downs, how involved in your training and celebrating your achievements as if it’s their own, how they share their personal experiences with you willingly to be there at any time you need them.
As I came from Libya, North Africa where we’ve more than 300 days of blue skies, At my initial training, I was not happy with the Irish weather, as I progressed in my training, I come to understand and believe that it was the perfect place to learn how to fly and it was the best decision I’ve ever made,
You’ll be weather expert in no time taming the most dangerous element of aviation safety by becoming knowledgeable in weather analyzing and decision making, with the so dynamic quick changing status weather of Ireland, your planning skills will be at the roof top even before you get to your IR stage. You’ll in the weather ground school looking out from the window, seeing everything the instructor is talking about.
Now that helped me build my confidence in weather clues reading, which helped me a lot during my training and put me in the lead among my colleagues after I finished and became an airline pilot.
All In All, AFTA is a flying training academy run by airline's mindset. If you graduate from AFTA, you won't have any problem landing your airline job at the 1st go.
I’ll recommend AFTA to anybody I care about, If my kids will want to become airline pilots, I’ll send them to AFTA that’s for sure.
Thanks AFTA
Course(s) taken:
General
Aircraft
Simulators
Theoretical Training
Practical Training
