ASU/ATP

Hello everyone,

I am a student and employee at Arizona State University. I would like to let everyone know, that ATP is now the new flight provider for ASU. MPD's official last day is on July 13th, 2012. ATP plans on starting up August 1st, 2012. For those wondering, MPD is not extinct, and will be moving down the ramp to a different facility to pursue as an independent flight provider. This ASU/ATP contract is quite exciting and will be great for ASU students. The average costs should be in the 60k's, instead of MPD's average in the 80-90k's.

Airplanes began being delivered this week and will continue throughout July. Training will be done in their existing conventional CE-172s, G1000 CE-172s, and the 2012 PA-44 Seminole with the G500 suite. Private, Instrument, Commercial will be done Part 141, CFI/II/MEI Part 61.

Training will still be done at ASU Polytechnic Campus, and just one hangar over from the previous facility at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (KIWA).

Steve

Steve, how busy is the traffic at Mesa? What are some locations you guys do instrument X/C and approaches?

Gateway is pretty busy, a lot of corporate jets coming in for mx at Embraer, Cessna Citation, Hawker-Beech. Allegiant and Spirit operate here, Allegiant serves over 30 destinations out of here, and there's ATP, UND, MPD flight schools here, also a lot of military operations here. Currently the Antonov 124 is here, a fire fighting DC-10, and a bunch of the Homeland Security MD-80s here. It gets pretty busy, and its a lot of fun!

The busier the better, beats shooting a GPS approach to an uncontrolled strip in lower Alabama!!!

haha well we do a lot of approaches at Chandler(CHD), Scottsdale (SDL) Casa Grande (CGZ), and Coolidge (P08). Only the first two are controlled.

Cross sectional says intensive student training, not surprised! Let's try one to Luke!

Hey steven,

I'm an incoming junior (BS Geography major) at the Tempe campus and was wondering if I can work on my ratings with the school or maybe get a minor in aviation. I currently have a PPL...

Go Sundevils!!

Hello sir,

Unfortunately there are no minors in the aviation program. You could join the normal ATP program out at Gateway and go through that program, it just wouldn't be through ASU

Speaking of minors, are you pursuing one Steve?

I am not

You really have to keep your head on a swivel when south of the valley doing approaches at CGZ...Coolidge is a really cool old airport with old WWII era hangars still there...very cool stuff. Gateway gets stupid busy, we'd usually only use it for our ILS approaches.

@Steven Lipstraw, any chance the ASU aviation program may look to further their partnership with ATP by starting an online program with flight training at ATP's national locations?

@ozziecat35 I wouldn't look for that to happen anytime soon, maybe in a few years that might happen. ASU is big on online courses, but so far our entire degree of 120 credit hours consists of around 3 classes that are online...

And yes, I know what you mean! It gets crazy in the practice area. For the big part of July, CGZ's ILS has been out, Gateways ILS was out last week for a bit, and Gateway's policy is only practice approaches when using 30's, which is only in the afternoon. So we get to do the ILS into IWA when its 45*C out with sweat dripping off onto our approach plates haha

Cool planes, but i'd never want a student to be taught in full glass and that's it with minimal or zero analog time.

All of private, Commercial single, CFI, and most of Instrument will be done in the analog Cessna's. The G1000 will be used for some of the instrument training, about 10-15 hours I believe.

Too bad this couldn't be done over a period of a few months, I'd have a better chance of being granted a temporary leave of absence from my job if it were only 2-3 months.

Good. Now, you and I are on the same playing field. . Integrating glass here and there after their i'd say instrument wouldn't be such a bad idea. However, some of these universities start off and train ALL of their students and courses based around a G500 or G1K/G2K airplane, and THAT I have a huge problem with...