Originally Posted by
thesweetlycool
Secondly, I have been in contact with another flight school in the Austin, TX area which I am also going to visit next week when I go down to the aformentioned interview. The owner is really nice and is essentially offering me a job if I am able to put enough money on the table to start my MEI training and continue it into a lowerlevel ATP course after I begin instructing for him.. which apparently would be about a half-month to a month after I arrive. My question here is does it seem like he is taking advantage of me? I would not be able to sustain myself if flight instructing if I also am paying for training as well. It sort've seems like he is interested in my inexperience because he knows that he'll get an employee and business out of it. Just wanted some other opinions.
Thanks guys!
This is absolutley absurd. I have never heard of this tactic by a flight school. Yes, he is taking advantage of desperate instructors.
He is doing a gross dis-service to aviation and pilots, and I really hope that you do NOT visit somebody that would say this (if that is indeed the case). He wants your money, its not about you getting his. I would consider this more of a reverse hire, you are basically hiring him. (MEI plus ATP training. You wont have enough flight time for ATP, and nowhere in GA is there a CFI ATP requirment)