I would strongly suggest choosing a school with a pipeline program. Flight instructing ends up being a 'weeder' where not everyone who starts goes any further. It's not this why by design, it's just that way right now because there aren't as many students as there are instructors, and hiring in the entire industry is poor. Choosing the right school makes a huge, HUGE difference. If you think you can make it on sheer determination and aptitude, you're wrong. I started instructing full time after the crash, and I'm the only one out of the six people I went to instructor school with that was actually able to keep moving. I'm good, but I hold a few of them that dropped out of flying because they couldn't make it work in very high esteem, and consider them better than myself.

My suggestion? transpac. I've never worked there, but the foreign students aren't drying up for now and they have an interview agreement.

it's not like it used to be where you could reasonably expect or plan on having a shot to interview at a regional. It's better than it was last year, but CFIs are having to fight it out with 5,000 hour jet pilots for entry level regional jobs.


I wish you the best of luck. Please post the schools you have chances with so others can give you reviews.