Originally Posted by
georgetg
You might consider IFTA in BFL
www.ifta.aero
All Nippon Airways (ANA) runs the school to train their new hires.
After 18 months at IFTA and 8 months in Tokyo the trainees go to the right seat of the 767. Its a "clone" of the Lufthansa school in Goodyear and is owned by
they pay well, will train you and offer better benefits than most companies.
the aircraft are maintained very well by a dedicated beechcraft mx shop on site.
you'll fly about 700-800 h a year.
Downside is that you'll be doing more talkin than flying.
You'll also need to be armed with patience because of language barriers and the fact that while you are teaching the guy across the table from scratch, he'll be flying the 767 2 years from now...
you will have excellent instrument skills.
you'll have better crm and crew skills than most other regional applicants.
if you can make it at ifta you'll be more than well prepared for a 121 job and you'll have the pic and multi time.
PM me if you have any questions
Cheers
George
Like I said in my pervious post, I worked UND two years and then moved on instructing to better pay. I picked IFTA becuase of the great bens and pay. However my goal was always to go to the airlines and same with a lot of the other "younger instructors" working there. The big problem with that place is that there are two types of people there. One type is under the mindset that this job is just a stepping stone to the airlines and the other is that this is the final stop. These two types of employees DO NOT mesh well at all in that environment. Thus, there are having a lot of fall out with people leaving even before the end of the agreement. Why do you think a CFI job that pays that well and has great benifits has so many openings? It is not that ANA is sending more than normal classes, it is simply becuase they can not keep the instructors on staff. I only tell you this not to scare you off, but you need to be 100% postitive that you're cool instructing another 2 years and not act or even talk about moving on. Even if you serve your time, you'll be treated like sh*t when you annouce you're out. PM and I can give you all the details and more contacts that work there. Again, I say think you should instruct to build your time for SkyWest, but be carefull of IFTA.