With slowing hiring, what is better? CFI or Airline placement programs?
03-22-2008, 11:41 PM
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really? just around this time last year, I remember they paid their CFIs $1000 a month (or $800 if you lived in their apartments) which is pretty atrocious.
I don't know what ATP pays now, but I've seen plenty of other places advertise starting pay of $30/hr or salary positions of $40k/yr.
I don't know what ATP pays now, but I've seen plenty of other places advertise starting pay of $30/hr or salary positions of $40k/yr.
03-23-2008, 01:23 AM
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Pan Am is paying instructors around $35,000 a year SALARY plus Bennies!!! they will even pay for your CFII and MEI if you stay for a year. I took a pay cut to come to the airlines. Get the CFII and MEI. you wont regret it. If the bottom does drop out and I end out of my job I have a garanteed flying job as a CFI. No questions asked, especialy with all the foreign flight training going on. Good Luck with your descision.
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03-23-2008, 05:45 AM
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I'll offer my confirmation of what everyone else is saying. I'm at my third airline and haven't used my CFI for over 10 years. But I'd never think of letting it lapse because I know that if the bottom really drops out of the airlines, I'll have some way of earning mortgage money almost immediately, anywhere in the country (after brushing up on all the changes in the last decade!)
My CFI tickets could also be considered my safety net in the event that something medically disqualifies me from airline flying down the road. I wouldn't want to instruct the rest of my career but the income would help take the edge off money worries while training for whatever I'd do next.
My CFI tickets could also be considered my safety net in the event that something medically disqualifies me from airline flying down the road. I wouldn't want to instruct the rest of my career but the income would help take the edge off money worries while training for whatever I'd do next.
03-23-2008, 08:50 AM
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Pan Am is paying instructors around $35,000 a year SALARY plus Bennies!!! they will even pay for your CFII and MEI if you stay for a year. I took a pay cut to come to the airlines. Get the CFII and MEI. you wont regret it. If the bottom does drop out and I end out of my job I have a garanteed flying job as a CFI. No questions asked, especialy with all the foreign flight training going on. Good Luck with your descision.
03-23-2008, 12:03 PM
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I sent my resume over to Pan Am academy, anybody worked there that can tell my what its like, i am not too happy about the whole year comitment deal and have never been to Arizona but I dont have the money for a II and MEI either.
Any other sugestions on schools that are paying for CFII and MEI?
Any other sugestions on schools that are paying for CFII and MEI?
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03-23-2008, 12:13 PM
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rickair7777 -
"but there appears to be a long-term CFI shortage...especially experienced CFI's."
This is what I have read on other forums and in FLYING magazine recently. They said the CFI shortage was going to get even worse with the regionals and others dipping into the CFI pool earlier and earlier and grabbing the guys that would usually be there for a time to build their experience base. I heard that schools were going to have to start paying well (including benefits) soon or risk not having enough CFIs to fulfill the **oncoming** demand for pilots.
USMCFLYR
"but there appears to be a long-term CFI shortage...especially experienced CFI's."
This is what I have read on other forums and in FLYING magazine recently. They said the CFI shortage was going to get even worse with the regionals and others dipping into the CFI pool earlier and earlier and grabbing the guys that would usually be there for a time to build their experience base. I heard that schools were going to have to start paying well (including benefits) soon or risk not having enough CFIs to fulfill the **oncoming** demand for pilots.
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