The pay is excellent now it's what you are holding on paper at max credit 89 hours I think plus an override of like $800 or $900 bucks a month. I didn't take the time to look it up exactly but I think that is pretty close. So say you are teaching on the A-320 but you hold 777 F/O on paper. You'd get 777 pay at the max monthly credit plus the override. You get paid for whatever you can hold no matter what you are teaching on. Inversly if you are teaching on the 747 and hold A-320 F/O you are getting paid at that rate.

NOTE; To Tk dudes, I am going to look this up in the contract. If anything I said needs correction please feel free to jump in here and fix it before I get back.



It is NOT a 9-5 job depending on what you are doing. A regular sim session is a 6.5 hour day 1.5 hours of brief .5 break 4 hours of sim time and a .5 debrief. Some days are longer some are shorter depending on what you are doing and how many students you have. You get 12 or 13 days off a month you can pretty much pick them, sim times are variable from 0400 start times to as late as 2000 getting done at 0200. Those days kind of suck but they aren't all that common.

As far as groundhog day. I was good with it for the first three or four years because I was getting qualified to do new stuff all the time.

One of the things I really enjoyed was when we closed the 727 and DC-10 fleets down we had some guys who were having issues transitioning to glass and the two person crew dynamic after having spent a career on steam gauges with three pilots on the flight deck. I found a great sense of satisfaction working with those guys and getting them up to speed. It was very gratifying to be one of the "go to guys" when we had a pilot with some trouble. That was real teaching and not just running through the script and pushing buttons in the sim.