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Old 04-30-2007 | 12:05 PM
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Why flight instruct when you can go to a regional with a commercial mutli right now, make a little more money and you get to fly a shiny jet? CFI's are going to be in very short supply until pay increases. Sadly this is going to be passed on to the students which will begin a vicious cycle. Funny thing is most flight schools are charging $30-45 an hour for dual but only paying their instructors about half that and also making money on the plane.

I'm on my second CFI job. The first one sucked, the second one is much better (better pay, health insurance, etc). I like instructing but I'm going to move on soon because I can't afford to do it.
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