Originally Posted by
adebord
Are you serious
If you think flight instructors are getting paid for 160-200 hours a month you are severely out of touch. A good month would be half of that.
Not out of touch. And yes I'm dead serious, at a college flight program like ERAU people do get paid that much.
Maybe someone with experience at ATP or Aerosim (Delta Connection Academy) can chime in on their pay structure.
ERAU example:
Let's say a full time CFI has 8 students, that's 4 activities a day at an average 2 hours per activity that's 8 hours of pay per day without picking up additional work. Students are MWF, TTHS.
Full time CFIs have the option to work Saturday or take the day off. If a CFI chooses to take Saturday off they are working 40 hours a week. There's 4 weeks in a month.
40*4=160.