SimCheck Advanced Simulation & Flight Training Complex

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Why pick SimCheck Advanced Simulator and Flight Training Center to prepare you for a career as a professional corporate or airline pilot?

First of all I would encourage every aspiring pilot to do their research -- start at the top and work down. When you are looking for job it's important to find out what your future employer is seeking in qualifications. Start with the regional airlines or corporate flight departments and find out what qualifications will make you very competitive for employment in their eyes. Go to job fairs and talk to representatives from organizations like Women in Aviation, Air, Inc. and the Black Airline Pilots Association. They hold conventions that the regional and major airlines attend to recruit pilots for immediate new hire classes or to recruit good prospects that have not completed their training but will be available in six months or a year from now. This is an opportunity to talk to a pilot recruiter and make your face, personality and qualifications known to the recruiters. Believe me as a pilot recruiter, a very high number of new hires are hired right from these job fairs. As recruiters, we remember the faces and the personalities especially if we see you several times at these job fairs. It tells us you are committed to the industry.

Flight Ops.Com (fltops.com) is made up of airline professionals and has a commitment in helping current airline pilots and aspiring pilots make important career decisions. Check out all these organizations before you make a decision. It makes sense to plan your career as carefully as you plan a flight. Listen to professionals that have “been there done that” and let them guide you through the critical decisions throughout your career. You need to build turbine time, not Internet time. FLTops.com is a refreshing respite from the cluttered, angry madness so common on aviation websites. FLTops.com is a good source of unbiased information for picking a flight training school or guidance that can help you navigate this crazy business and insure that your career goes as smoothly on the ground as it does in the air.

Some answers to the most commonly asked questions.

A. SimCheck operates under the FAA's part 61 training program. Here is a comparison. The 141 curriculum was designed years ago for the VA so veterans of the military would have a government-approved program and the government could fund the training. Most schools still operate under 141 so they can offer funding for student training. Lending institutions that issue government-backed loans are required to have government-approved curriculum; hence 141. The 141 curriculum is a good curriculum; it's just not tailored towards the airlines or the professional corporate world. It is a recreational-based training program built around 172 and Seneca-like aircraft. The 141 curriculum is 190 hrs and there are no job opportunities for pilots with 190 hours. SimCheck curriculum is airline and corporate based and we use King Air turbine aircraft for training. SimCheck 61 training is 250 hrs and employers will accept those hours as training for multi-commercial instrument ratings.

A. SimCheck believes that a small, VIP program training two or three pilots at a time over a concentrated four-month period will produce proven, marketable, advanced pilots. One advantage to this training is the multi-engine - instrument - commercial is taught by professional corporate and airline pilots. Another advantage is that a four-month program can add up to a lot of savings in living expenses alone as opposed to most 141 training programs that are 12 to 14 months long. Another factor to consider is the fact that every airline pilot will tell you your career's basis is seniority, seniority seniority. Spending two years in a protracted training program and flight instructing can make a huge difference in an airline career by not having a seniority number.

A. The answer is no. Most flight schools operate under the premise that you need 1200 hours and 100 hours of multi-engine experience to be considered by a regional airline. Flight schools will sell you a professional pilot program through CFI CFII MEI and then hire you as instructor if they have an opening to instruct the class behind you. You can build flight hours while being paid 8 or 9 dollars an hour as an instuctor. You do need a hundred hours of multi-engine time to qualify for airlines. The problem is that to teach as a multi-engine instructor, most insurance companies require 50 to 100 hours in the type aircraft you are going to instruct in. That means you have to buy some more multi-engine time to qualify as a multi-engine flight instructor. The airlines will interview and accept pilots with 500 to 600 hours, providing they have had the advanced turbine or regional jet transition course. Some of the top flight training programs in the country will offer you advanced training program after you have completed your CFI internship and have a hundred hours of multi-engine time. These advanced courses range from $10,000-$26,000.

A. No, it's included in the training curriculum. SimCheck uses 50 hours of simulator time towards your commercial pilot certificate. The 50 hours is either jet transition or a turboprop transition course. If you are starting with a private with 40 hours and are trained under our 250 hour VIP training program, you will get the turbine transition course as part of your commercial license. With 250 hours you will not qualify for the jet regional airlines. You will have to go into a time building internship with one of our time building airlines. Upon completion you will have close to 500 hours and then you will go through jet transition course. If you pass the jet transition course you will receive a completion certificate and a recommendation to interview with a regional jet airline of your choice or our recommendations.

A. Yes, turbine time is more expensive than flying a Seneca if you break out the cost. At most flight schools Seneca flight time can cost you $300 an hour or more. At SimCheck two pilots share the costs of the $900 an hour turbine airplane -- that's $450 apiece for turbine time flying simulated airline trips taught by airline pilots. Remember, turbine flight time training is rated very high with recruiters in the corporate and airline industry.

A. If you look at the flight school comparison developed by FlightOps you will see that SimCheck VIP training course is very competitively priced, considering that in most of the programs turboprop or jet transition course is added on to those prices. SimCheck includes the transition courses in its price -- no extras. Considering the training is done in a turboprop with professional airline pilots as instructors and with the short training time of 4 to 5 months, SimCheck training is the best value for your dollar in the industry. It’s the right training for the right job.

What Will You Spend?
(US 2007 Dollars)

Prices reflect completion through CFII and MEI (see exceptions in notes below)

School	Months	Tuition	Books	CheckRides	Room	Board	Total
Air Safety	10	$59,680	1,450	$2,550	$6,000	$1,800	$71,480
ATP	5	$53.990	Inc.	$2,800	-	-	$56,790
DCA	12	$61,974	$2,000	Inc.	$8,400	-	$72,374
FSI	12	$69,348	Inc.	Inc.	$5,824	$6,500	$81,672
PAIFA	10	$65,000	$1,000	$2,400	-	-	$68,400
RAA	14	$59,995	Inc.	Inc.	$5,100	$4,000	$69,095
SAA	12	$70,000	Inc.	Inc.	-	-	$70,000
WSA	10	$58,700	$900	Inc.	$6,000	$6,000	$71,600
SimCheck Training	4 to 5	$70,775	Inc.	$1200	-	-
Averages	10	$62,336	$669	$969	$3,916	$2,288	$70,176