It would also be reasonable to have different rates for flight time,
ground time, and solo supervision.



"Peter Duniho" wrote in
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GEG wrote in message ...
After one qualifies to solo, do you still
pay intructor rates during solo flights?
I would expect that during briefings and
debriefs, one woul.

But do oyu pay for the whole time you are flying?

Generally speaking, if you are consuming the instructor's time, you
should be paying for his time. This includes supervised solos, when
the instructor is (should be) monitoring your flight and is focused
entirely on you.

In my experience, deviations from this norm occur when the instructor
fails to charge for time he actually invested. I've never heard of an
instructor charging for time that he didn't actually put in, but if
you did run into that situation, I'd look for another instructor, one
who takes his job more seriously.

Deviations in the other direction (not charging even though the
instructor is still working for you) are at the instructor's
discretion, and you should NEVER expect them. Personally, I think any
time an instructor fails to charge for time he actually puts in, he's
simply devaluing all instructors' time, and setting up poor
expectations for students. Rounding down by 5 minutes isn't a
problem, but an instructor who is regularly foregoing quarter-hour or
more chunks of payment is helping no one, not even the student they
might think they are helping.

A situation when I'd expect to pay the instructor for solo time would
be when I'm making a solo flight at the airport where the instructor
has remained, and the instructor is watching the flight and/or
listening on a handheld, and otherwise is still involved in the solo
flight.

Situations where I wouldn't expect to pay the instructor for the solo
time would include flights away from the airport, be they local
flights or cross-country flights.

Regardless, I would expect pre- and post-flight briefings to be paid
for, as you suggest.

Pete




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