kontiki wrote in
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John wrote:

While the ATP can cost a lot of money to obtain, a CFI is not the
same. I see ads for CFI training for 3000.00 That being said, I too
agree that CFI are way underpaid. I don't think that should be paid
on the scale of a lawyer or a plumber but rather on a teacher scale,
somewhere between 40-100k If the industry wants to attract qualified
committed people, they need to make the teachers pay something that
they can live on or else they will have the issues they have now
where instructors are just building hours to move on.

John

I have always felt that by simply raising the aeronautical experience
requirements to obtain a CFI to something more reasonable like 1000hrs
or even 500hrs would go a long way toward producing higher quality
CFIs. It would also put upward pressure on the salaries you'd have
to pay them. Whenever that time comes I may consider instructing
again.

Very good idea. Dont know what it might do to the industry though!

Bertie