First of all you CANNOT speak Chinese at the workplace or encourage it or you will be reprimanded. Yes reprimanded... In general they need the English practice anyway so I agree to that degree but that's that. Secondly, how many flight hours goes up and down very dramatically depending on the course being taught and what team your on (the instructors are on 1 of 3 different teams for the various airline classes going through at any one time)... If your lucky you'll start with standardization flights within two weeks of a start date and then hopefully be flying "line" within a few weeks of that. I'll tell you that there has been many instructors that actually didn't fly for 2-3 months after getting hired. I was one of them and simply they didn't have any classes for us to teach because the contracts were delayed etc.. You will be standardized most likely for "duty instructor" in the meantime where you'll sit at a desk and do solo sign out paperwork all day for $9 an hour at best if you break down the salary to the hours worked on average. The planes are getting pretty heavily dated but as far as I saw the maintenance was relatively decent most of the time.. If you want to know if it's an "ok" place to start then sure... Is it a good place to start as far as the CFI industry right now, I say not by a long shot.