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Old 07-10-2018 | 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Avgeek7248
I haven't heard of them. Just looked them up and seem like another good option.
Where do you live? It seems more and more big 141 programs are being inundated with a lot of students, mostly foreign but also domestic. In Florida you’ve got several such as L3 and Flight Safety. In fact one of my students started at flight safety before he came out here. There’s falcon in Georgia. Texas has several as well; USAA is probably the biggest, there are also three or four down in the San Antonio area such as VT-AAA and some others whose name I can’t remember. Phoenix has all the big ones, some of which I detailed in an earlier comment. California has schools like Sierra and IASCO. And then there’s Hillsboro up in Oregon (and a Las Vegas campus they’re trying to get going). Anyway, I ask where you live because with the influx of foreign training in the US, there are a ton of schools with a ton of students. Some even have benefits and upgrades to turbine training or in the case of flight safety there’s a track to FSI if you wanted to work on that side of the industry. I have heard for years “don’t move/commute for a regional if you don’t have to,” and honestly I think the same can be said for CFI. Really the big advantage we have here in Arizona is the sheer amount of fair weather flying days (this week and maybe the next week or two are about as bad as it will get, with each afternoon predictably having thunderstorms). So unless you’re dead-set on a total change of scenery or your have some friends already instructing at a particular school, I wouldn’t necessarily pack up and relocate. And there’s something to be said about instructing where you learned, depending on the pay and hours of course.
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