Originally Posted by
Bellanca
When everyone seems low on money these days, an extra $50-60 per flight lesson isn't an easy of a sell as you think it is. Even the career oriented students are telling me that they are running out of money and just need to get done. Then the students of mine that aren't career oriented, are working on private pilot, and turning local flights into XC's really doesn't benefit them at all (at least not enough to compensate for the extra money spent.)
And these same 'career oriented' students are on APC 6 months down the road complaining how they can't get enough X/C time while instructing
"just get it done" to what end?
I guess they could be thinking - why pay for it in training when I hope to get it while getting paid.
That thought process would certainly have been valid in the last few years where the general consensus was to get it done for as cheap as possible (not inlcuding the big university programs or mills) and into the right seat of an airliner as quickly as possible; but doesn't seem to work now in the current/and future environment.
It's a tough road for the new CFIs out there. More power to you!