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Career Change - Full-time CFI: Average Flight Hours per year?
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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