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GULFSTREAM'S VIEW
Criteria For Selecting Airline Pilot And First Officer

Selecting your career path to becoming an airline pilot is likely one of the most important decisions you will make in your professional career. Balancing the pluses and minuses of the various programs is difficult without first setting up a basis by which to evaluate your various options

One of your primary objectives in the selection process is to become an informed consumer. To assist you in the complicated and often confusing process, I have setup the following criteria for evaluating and selecting the very best airline pilot training and or first officer training program to begin your airline pilot career

I respectfully suggest that you use the following to assist you as you formulate questions to ask when you inquire about the various programs. In this way, you can fairly evaluate the benefits of each program.

I know this is a lot of information but you have a very important decision ahead of you and spending time researching the various programs and comparing them, using specific criteria, is an important part of the process. Making sure you get detailed answers to the above selection criteria will put you in position to make the right choice for your airline pilot training. Take your time, talk to as many programs as you can, visit them, and verify that the information you are getting is timely and accurate.Once again, thank you for taking the time to consider Gulfstream for your airline pilot and first officer training. Whatever your plans for airline pilot or first officer training you can count on safe, reliable, and professional, training from Gulfstream - that's the cornerstone of our business.

Sincerely,
Paul A. Stagias
President

Criteria (Questions & Answers):

1.	Does the airline training provide experience as a passenger airline pilot?
2.	During my training will the airline I fly for operate under Part-121 regulations like the majors and substantial regional airlines do?
3.	Are the aircraft equipped with at least a partial glass cockpit including EFIS, Flight Director, Moving Map GPS, and EGPWS?
4.	Is airline indoctrination, operations, and systems training conducted using LCD projection displays with professional motion graphics?
5.	Will training and check rides be conducted in a full-flight-simulator where I can log my hours?
6.	While flying the line as a first officer, will I be able to log my hours as second in command under Part-121?
7.	Are the aircraft I will be flying equipped with an autopilot?
8.	Is the passenger airline flying under the colors of a major air carrier?
9.	Will I receive international flight experience as a first officer?
10.	As a first officer, will I have the opportunity to fly into and out of some of the busiest airports in the USA?
11.	Does the training program utilize a young fleet of aircraft that is less than six year old?
12.	Has the flight training organization and the airline been successfully operating for over ten years?
13.	Is 100% financing from major financial institutions offered?
14.	Is there a clear path to a job opportunity with the airline and or its code share partners?
15.	Is it required that I delay my airline pilot career while working as a flight instructor?
16.	What is the entire number of trainees entering a school's program in the past year (use two years if you prefer), and what percentage of this group that has completed 100% of your training program (Including CFI courses and work as a CFI, if applicable) and have graduated from your program?
17.	Of those from the pervious question who graduated from a school's training program over the past year, what percent obtained a Part-121 first officer position?
18.	What is the failure rate of those graduates who receive jobs as first officers with a Part-121 airline?
19.	Does the school have an established preferential hiring program with Part-121 airlines interviewing their graduates at there own facility?
20.	Can the school provide you with the names and phone numbers of recent graduates who have successfully completed the program and have been hired as Part-121 first officers?
21.	Can the school provide you with the names and phone numbers of major airline captains and first officers who have graduated or are supporters of the first officer training program?

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