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ATP ADDS NEW TRAINING PROGRAM WITH EFIS FOCUS
Airline Transport Professionals, Inc., is offering a new DirectTrack extension to its Airline Career Pilot Program. ATP, which provides accelerated flight training at 23 locations, says the new DirectTrack will add 320 hours of electronic flight instrumentation system cross-country experience and 40 hours in a CRJ-200 flight training device to the Airline Career Pilot Program's 140 hours of multiengine cross-country experience and CitationJet initial operating experience. DirectTrack will be available at ATP's Jacksonville, Florida, and Dallas locations, with additional locations planned as ATP expands its fleet. ATP has acquired 16 glass-cockpit Diamond DA40-180s for the new program. For more information on DirectTrack or any of ATP's flight training programs, see the Web site or call 800/ALL-ATPS.

...AND TAKES DELIVERY OF FIRST GLASS-COCKPIT DIAMOND STAR
Speaking of expansion, ATP recently received the first of 16 glass-cockpit Diamond Star DA40-180s that are to be used exclusively in the DirectTrack program. Each is equipped with the Garmin G1000 integrated avionics system. ATP says the G1000-equipped DA40s will better prepare pilots for the transition to glass-cockpit jets and will improve safety with a terrain awareness and warning system and traffic information system. The Diamond Stars round out a fleet of 78 aircraft that include 60 Piper PA-44 Seminoles, 16 Cessna 172 Skyhawks, and a Cessna CE-501 CitationJet.


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