JetA PourHomme

If you don't mind, what was your buddie's first name? I've had the exact opposite experience. Tito, the guy who owns/runs it is a really good guy and wants to see you better yourself. He'll also go out of his way for you. I got stuck in Sedona with a dead battery and he drove up from Phoenix to bring me a new one. On top of that, he gave me a hourly discount for getting stuck (there's worse places than SEZ to be "stuck").

It's definitely a smaller flight school environment but Tito has a lot of knowledge to share and he's more than happy to do so. There's also two other CFIs there. Both seem like good CFIs though I have no first hand experience with them.

WX Guru

I'll contact my friend and have him PM you if he wants to divulge his identity and/or experience (or he can post it here himself if he so chooses). Just passing along what I've heard. The name Tito doesn't ring a bell. He must have had one of the other two. I think his name was Jack or Zack??? Does that sound familiar? He said the guy would yell at him in the airplane and slap his hand when he would have his hand on the throttle for too long. That coupled with being ripped off was why he told me he left. Just passing along what I've heard. He said he was much happier at the school he went to in CHD. Best of luck to you on your commercial cert!!

JetA PourHomme

Zack and Chuck are the other two CFIs. Like I said, I've never flown with Zack so I can't speak from my personal experience about that. I know Tito pretty well and I can't see him ripping people off but I guess each experience will differ.

Appreciate it!

Zona Pilot 1830

I got my PPL at Aersoim in GEU. Hated it!!! Went to DVT to get my IR. Much better!

Systemized

If one had to rank the top flight schools in the Phoenix area based on hours flown per month, where would Transpac rank?

rcfd13

First as far as I know. Definitely first for amount of multi you can get per month.

Systemized

How much multi per commercial student can an instructor expect to obtain?

My guess would be 35-50 hours per student.

Does the A/C work in all the airplanes?

Where are all the students from? My understanding is, Transpac has a large number of chinese/CAFUC students, how about Taiwanese students, or Mongolians?

How many hours do you get with a student before you must solo them?

rcfd13

They take their checkride at 24 hours if they're right on pace. You can expect to fly about 19-22 of that with each student. I built 175 multi in about 4 months.


The Archers A/C is pretty decent but you won't be able to use it on takeoff and landing since the compressor is engine driven. A few of the archers don't have A/C but they won't dispatch those during the day when the temps are too hot. The seminoles have a portable A/C unit in the baggage compartment that you can use all of the time but it doesn't cool the plane down nearly as well as the ones in the Archer.

Phoenix is hot whether you're in a plane or not. You'll just have to deal with it most of the time. I would have probably still worked there even if the planes didn't have A/C. Most planes in Phoenix don't.

95% Chinese and about 5% domestic I'd say. The only foreign contracts are currently Chinese and have been for years.


As many as you think they need before you solo them. No one will push you to do it. If they're right on pace they're going to fly 35-40 hours before they solo even if they're really good. If you don't think they're good enough then you can take as long as they need. I sent 6 Chinese students solo all with differing abilities. None of them ever had an incident and I didn't feel pressured to solo any of them.

lowtimepilot

How many hours can you expect to build instructing at Transpac a month/ year?

Shiner

I'm a CFI at TransPac and have been averaging about 80/month. I've been here over a year and did 961.4 in 2012. Some of that was my MEI training.