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Old 07-13-2008 | 05:15 PM
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Default Assumptions about CFI Jobs

Interview if it's offered. Get in a pool, if you can. Maybe the airline will survive, and you'll get a call in a few years. It may be the only way to get an airline job, at all.

In the meantime, finish school and get a CFI job, now, if you can. I think many here are not seeing the big picture here when they say "you can always get a CFI job". I don't think that's true anymore, or at least it won't be in a more few months. Hundreds of more qualified, experienced, CFIs are in the process of being furloughed from the Regionals (myself included). If they don't throw in the towel and leave flying all together, they very well may competing for those better paying, salaried, CFI jobs with health bennies.

I have several CFI friends who are working at FBOs and smaller schools that are calling me, asking about for other CFI jobs. They have lost most of their students due to fuel prices and the economy. General Aviation in general is the middle of a drastic decline. All of this sh*t rolls down hill. None of the old assumptions are valid right now. Just my $.02

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