Originally Posted by
4GPilot
This sounds like a question of size? What is the size of the flight school you are at? The flight school I am instructing at is small and the Chief Flight Instructor also instructs full time as well. That is simply a matter of business and size. We do not have enough CFI's or students for him to have the role solely as the "chief."
I would agree thought, that under the circumstances of a larger school, a chief instructor should deal with standardization and proficiency checks.
I agree with this post as often times its a business and numbers decision. I'm the chief at a smaller 61 school and I a large chunk of the school's training. This is primarily to keep myself busy enough to help make the company money so they can afford to keep me full time. When it comes time to assigning students we look at how full my roster is vs how regular the student will be and what the odds of them completing are. If it is someone that is a floater or an irregularly scheduling student more often then not it will be flowed down to one of my other instructors.