wrote on 11/8/2018 8:25 AM:
On Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 9:42:58 PM UTC-5, Charles Longley wrote:
My number one bit of advice is don’t instruct for free. My club expects the instructors to work for free. It’s the main reason I don’t do my CFI-G. I feel that the student should pay for it. $40 per hour is a pretty reasonable rate. Leave the club out of it and have the student pay the instructors directly.

I disagree. Getting paid for it makes it a job, jobs suck. There is a circular problem, the less CFIs the less fun it is to be a CFI. Instructing is great when you have a large pool of instructors taking turns. I don't have an answer beyond encouraging those that you think would be good at it to go for it.

Nooo, it's a job if you are an employee; if you are boss, like doing it, AND you
are getting paid for it - Be Happy! Use the money to pay for car repairs or the
other things that need doing, but you don't have the time to do because you are
instructing. My wife thought was a clever way to go flying instead working on
"honey do's".

I instructed for our club for 16 years, learned a lot, had fun, club grew, and I
always charged for instruction. No one ever complained, and one student even gave
me a $150 tip after he got his license!


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