Originally Posted by
pilot1278
"I'm currently flight instructing at a part 61 flight school. The Chief Flight Instructor is directly instructing students. Is this right?"
Yes. If they are on a salary or rely on the job to feed their families, then they have to stay busy. They are the top dog and seniority is everything in Aviation.
Maybe it is a function of size as others have mentioned, but if it is a big enough school to have a "Chief Instructor", AND that person is salaried, then it would sound to me like that person would have other duties as Chief Pilot to keep themselves busy with generating business and bringing in students. Since the *regular* insturctors are getting paid by the flight hour, then they should be pushed students in my opinion.
I had similar thing happen to me recently. Only one flight available and the full time guy (salaried) gave it to me since I got paid by the flight hour.
I do agree though with pilot1278 - you ought to always be looking for potential student/clients and always network!
USMCFLYR