Originally Posted by
The Juice
Average 1st year pay will be aprox 1700/month for a 1st year regional at 75 hours at $22.75/ hour. Dont expect more than 75.
So I assume you only make 1100 a month as an instructor (50% increase statement), and being that you work 7 days a week, you make on average $35 a day as an instructor.
Care to rethink your opinion on the extra 50% you will make at a regional?
I am not trying to be mean, but don't be melodramatic. There is nothing more annoying, as a regional pilot, is reading about a CFI who cant wait to fly an RJ so he can make big money, while the regional pilot is barely getting by.
Some might think that the reason why the regional pilot suffers financially is because the CFI wants to fly the RJ to make the "big bucks."
I agree 100%. An instructor friend of mine called me the other day to tell me he recently got hired by an airline that is taking flying from my airline and I might be furloughed because of it. He will be making $20 to fly the same routes that I fly at $40 an hour. He couldn't understand why I wasn't happy for him! Its really starting to p*ss me off how these cfis are willing to fly for nothing just to make it to the airlines. This same guy I know is being replaced as an instructor by another furloughed guy from my airline! I don't mean to be mean either but there are too many guys willing to fly for free just to become an airline pilot.