ATP Flight School relaunches 100-hour multi-engine training track

ATP Flight School has revived a version of its Airline Career Pilot Program with more than 100 hours of multi-engine flight time, the company said. The nine-month course costs $123,995 for students with no prior flight experience, the same price as ATP's standard zero-time program.

Students in the revamped program will log 285 total flight hours, according to the school. Of these, 101 hours will be in multi-engine aircraft, 134 in single-engine aircraft, and 50 in simulators. That's a significant shift from ATP's standard offering, which allocates just 25 hours to multi-engine flying out of 282 total hours. Rather than simply adding extra multi-engine time on top, the new structure replaces much of the single-engine flying found in the standard curriculum.

ATP's marketing vice president, Michael Arnold, said the company has focused on multi-engine training for over four decades and aims to prepare students for airline careers, according to a company statement.

The approach differs from an earlier version of ATP's expanded multi-engine option, which was available around 2022. That version treated the extra multi-engine hours as an add-on after students had already completed a single-engine commercial certificate. Under the new sequence, students starting from zero experience first earn a private pilot certificate in a single-engine aircraft. They then move into the Piper Seminole for a multi-engine add-on, staying in the twin-engine aircraft through their instrument rating, commercial multi-engine certificate, and both MEI and CFII instructor ratings. Single-engine training resumes later in the course.

The program is currently available at ATP locations in Atlanta, Daytona Beach, Florida, and Denton, Texas. The company said more locations are planned.