Originally Posted by
PCLCREW
I was talking to a systems instructor at Republic and he said they need 20 to 30 per class... last class he taught 7 showed out of the 20 they expected... So I would say yes they do have a problem, even if ATP instructors are foolish enough to pay 60K to work there.
When you talk to a flight instructor they talk about which major they're gonna work for, you talk to a 6 regional FO and they talk about what they're gonna do after they quit flying.
Unfortunately you were bamboozled! Republic has no systems instructors. They contract that out to FSI. Classes right now are as full as they want them to be. The limitation is available sim time worldwide.
The Q400 program is not contracted to FS. Also, recurrent is in house for the 170, so there are Republic instructors.