Originally Posted by
FlyingRae
What do folks know about Transpac Aviation Academy in Phoenix, AZ? Is the CFI life decent? Hours good? What's the housing like? Are the bonuses real? Is the management good to employees? Who I've been talking to has been super sweet, but HR people usually are. �� Thanks in advance!
The CFI life at Transpac right now. You will work 10 hour days many times with 1 hour break others with half hour break only, I messaged my team leader recently about having a half hour break after working 8 hours straight and his reply to me was that we get 1 hour breaks as a "courtesy" this is on 10 hour work days so you can imagine how management feels about us CFI's.
You will usually be scheduled starting at 4am during private and 4 or 5pm during instrument into early morning 2 or 3am.
They are no longer paying out the entire bonus when you finish standarization, now they pay half once you are done with stanz and the other half six months after that.
Hours during private; last week one of the CFI's teaching privative told me she was only getting about 30 hours per month because of new restrictions on the amount of hours they are giving new students.
Transpac used to be a great place to instruct (well dispite that most students are just lazy and you really have to babysit them. SOME are really good but this is rare) new owners changed things around, did some major damage then put things back (kind of). They used to have different airlines come visit every month, but this is not thr case anymore.
Management will pressure you to fly at times, personally I had a student who said he was sick and wasnt fit to fly, they told him to have some water and get in the airplane. I couldnt believe it.