Originally Posted by
T45Heinous
So...afterwords I talk to the chief pilot at the flight school where I took my test and he said I might get hired, but that I first would have to spend 10 hours in the air learning how to instruct and another 10 hours of ground school to get a handle on teaching "civilian". Of course that would all be at the rate of $50/hour.....hhmmmm I'm not trying to brag but I have 7 years experience instructing mil pilots and over 3k hours total (including about 100 hours of civilian multi-time)...I would think that a few familiarization hops and an hour or two in a ground school gouge session would be ssufficient
Couple things;
1) The obvious and most prevelant, the school has to make money, EVEN ON YOU.
2) It can have to do with insurance cost/liabilty that the place has. YEAH,
I KNOW, IT SUCKS. But don't ever be under the impression that because you flew a f-teen/C-one super heavy mega stealth hawk D model that you're "good to go". Chances are high that if a pure civilan showed up to the school with all their ratings and CFMEII they'd have to do it as well.
The concept can also apply to corporate operators as well. If the guy doesn't have tie in the exact type or an aircraft with a "similar size/footprint" it can be a show stopper.