Originally Posted by Pilotpip
This is one low timer that's preaching the message to the students he has that want to persue a career in aviation. Thankfully, they made a good choice and went to a local flight school for their training to begin with. Most of them are about to enter college and aren't majoring in aviation.
Now if I could only get the CFI's to stop jumping up at the first offer to fly something burning Jet A and wait for something that paid more along the lines of what they deserve.
Times are good now for CFI's. In a year or two you might be willing to work for free or pay a huge amount for a job. Some day soon the regional boom will end and the days of easy job hunting will be over. When I got on at Horizon Air I was the next youngest at 28 and had the lowest time of 3800 hours. Most of that was as a 135 multi PIC with some Learjet time. In the early 1990's people had to pay 10 to 20 thousand for a right seat commuter gig. This can't go on forever. Those days will come back and soon.
SkyHigh