In article , Tom S. wrote:
However, that doesn't exist at the vast majority of airports. The planes
are owned by the flight school, and your typical 18-23 year old
instructor isn't going to be able to afford their own plane to give
instruction in (unless Daddy's rich). They don't have the experience yet
to seriously go freelance either (virtually all the freelancers I've met
had at least 600-700 hours of real world flying before starting
instructing, and hence had something to bring to the student over and
above the neophyte instructors the flight school had.

Why does this pseudo-instructor feel he needs to work at THAT particular
airport?

Once again, it's the means. It's all very well yelling "So MOVE!", but
as you undoubtedly know, unless you can be bankrolled by someone
who will take the risk, opening your own flight school from the
position of the vast majority of flight instructors is not possible -
they simply don't have the resources. They probably don't have the
resources to even move away from home!

So the position they are in: either flight instruct for poor pay at
a flight school that doesn't respect its employees, or not flight
instruct at all.

Show me your entraprenurial spirit and tell me how YOU would solve that
dilema!

We are not talking about me. (For the record, I am a self-employed
software consultant making enough money to overhaul a very old house,
that has so far cost me more than overhauling both engines on a Baron,
so I *think* i might just be managing there). We are talking about the
typical young CFI who doesn't have the resources behind them. If I
wanted to start a flight school, I could have done so. However, I'd
rather fly for fun quite frankly, and do something else as the day job.

So MOVE!

No. I happen to like the Isle of Man.

And they wonder why so many thinks the world (or XYZ Company) owes them a
living.

No, nobody's saying that. What I am trying to explain (but obviously
failing) is that a good employee-employer relationship is built on
mutual trust. Exploitation of young, often life-inexperienced CFIs who
don't yet have access to any significant resources is just not on.
Saying that they aren't entrepenurial doesn't make it any more
acceptable. Many flight schools would do much, much better if the owners
showed not only respect, but more entreprenurial spirit than they are
now! Why do so many people not realise that mutual trust and respect
between employees and employers is often a very important part of a
successful business?

--
Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"