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"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message om... | "C J Campbell" wrote in message ... | I personally am logging about 400 hours per year, even though Seattle | weather has me grounded most of the time during the winter months. | | | I'll bet a lot of that is CFII and MEI work, not straight CFI work. I have not done any MEI work at all, unfortunately. We have a multi-engine plane, but it is available only for training, not rental, and it is priced out of the market. I will not spend the five hours in it to become qualified unless I absolutely have to. About half my instruction is CFII work. |
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For what it's worth, I did 575 hours of instructing last year...
Full time working for a small school... John Price CFII/AGI/IGI http://home.att.net/~jm.price "Peter Gibbons" wrote in message om... Background: I'm currently 30 years old with my IFR and about 190 hrs TT. Currently working as a systems administrator/programmer, but weighing my options are if I were to try to make a career out of aviation. Yeah - crazy, right? Try sitting in front of a monitor for 8 hours a day in a cubicle in a building with no windows! It makes mowing lawns sound like a good career move... Anyway, spending a year or two as a CFI seems like the common thing most folks do in order to build time. From poking around in the newsgroups, it seems as though if a new CFI were pulling in around $20k for full-time instructing, he would be considered a rich man! I could have survived on $20k about 5 years ago, but with a wife and a baby on the way, that's just not going to cut it. If I could build up enough hours to get hired on somewhere making $25k-$30k, that wouldn't be as unrealistic financially, and I could pad it a bit with some contract work here-and-there. So rather than chuck my current job right away, I figured I'd do a little comparison and see how realistic I was being. How many hours could I build up per year (and how much that would cost) if I stayed at my current job and flew on the weekends versus how many hours I would get (and how much money I would lose) if I instructed full-time. So, all of that to tell you the origin of what I am asking: Generally, how many hours can a full-time CFI expect to fly in a year? |
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"\"T\" Tung" wrote in message . ..
If you were a few years younger, you might have considered the military. However, maximum age for USAF pilot training is 30 years old at time of entry, and the application process would take about a year, and they don't give out waivers for cases like yours. That's also assuming you have a 4-year degree (officers need college degrees). In fact, to fly for most majors, having a degree is a major factor (not part of minimum quals, but highly desirable--as in 95% of new hires at the majors have college degrees), "T" Tung USAF, UAL, Boeing Funny you mention that, "T". I did try the Air Force... been trying for the past 4 years in fact. Good scores, work experience, strong letters, passed FC1 - just never got selected. My IFR instructor, about a year younger than me, with similar scores, got picked up in 2002 and is now training in T-38's, but he was one of the lucky ones. The number of guys they're picking up these days is pathetic. Last year's selection average was roughly 15-20% (averaging probably 100 applicants per board) every six weeks. But this fiscal year, they've cut back to I believe only 2 or 3 Rated boards per year. Moral of the story - if you want a shot at a pilot position in the Air Force, go to the Academy or ROTC. OTS gets the leftovers, and these days, there isn't much left to go around... |
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My goodness -- forty hours a week? Even with ground school, etc., a CFI is
not going to give forty hours/week instruction under any circumstances. You would have to be at the office 24/7 to get anywhere near that amount of time. Personally, I find the amount I instruct to be just about right. Enough to keep me busy, but plenty of time to devote to business and other activities. Instruction is only a retirement job for me, after all. |
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john price wrote: For what it's worth, I did 575 hours of instructing last year... Full time working for a small school... I thought you only taught on weekends. When did that change? George Patterson Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is "Hummmmm... That's interesting...." |
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Another option which I'm not sure you may have been aware of is to apply directly to the AF Reserve or Air Guard. It is more competitive in some ways, but sometimes even thatcan be deceiving. In my Reserve unit (flying KC-135s), we don't really get that many applicants, and the selection rate is therefore a bit higher...(maybe 30%). The age limit is still the same though. "T" Tung |
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