Originally Posted by
HulkaBurger
It's a sim instructor job. And most airlines pay in the $90-100k range.
I have no idea about FlightSafety or Simcom or CAE or any of the corporate/contract outfits.
And yeah, if what I have heard about the pay at United is correct, it's a deal breaker. But I'll see what I hear from them in a few days vs. hearsay on the street.
If you want to post the job announcement you'd get conformation on the actual duties, but based on what you posed I'm certain that the job is for an "academic instructor" position. Unless you're already a United Pilot, on the United Pilot seniority list, it's not for a "simulator instructor" position.
From the united pilot contract:
23-A-1 Unless agreed otherwise by the Company and the Association, only I/Es shall conduct, train and grade flight procedures and maneuvers from takeoff through landing in flight simulators or other flight training devices, except that other Company employees may perform normal procedures (e.g., takeoff, cruise, landing) only to the extent necessary to conduct systems training.
"I/E" (Instructor/Evaluators) are required to be rated and current line pilots in the equipment that they teach. Academic instructors (ground school instructors) don't have that requirement, but they also won't teach flight procedures. However they occasionally will take students to the sim to demonstrate aircraft systems in preparation for the flight training portion of a particular course.