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Old 29th Feb 2012, 02:17
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Yes you can get an FAA ATP flying nothing bigger than a piper cub basically
Bull Cr**, to use an Americanism. You can get a single engine ATP in the states, but is is not going to be in a "piper cub". More like a PC-12.

In the United States the ATP serves as the graduate degree for professional instrument flying. Be it in a scheduled airline, a corporate job or charter. And there is nothing wrong with that. Europe should wish that its aviation industry was a vibrant.

Good airmanship, judgment and instrument skills can be found in people from a range of backgrounds. And the best airlines try to employ all of them. Anyone surrounded by like minded clones is professionally stunted, and I feel pity for them.
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