Thread: Chief Flight Instructor vs. Flight Instructor
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Old 09-26-2010 | 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by TurnHeading360
I'm currently flight instructing at a part 61 flight school. The Chief Flight Instructor is directly instructing students. Is this right?

How can a regular flight instructor compete with a chief flight instructor. When given a choice the student is clearly going to pick the chief.

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I say this as a CFI without nearly enough students:

If the Chief has free time on his hands after whatever his administrative and check duties are, then, depending on the specifics at the flight school, he should probably be directly training students. The flight school isn't keeping the Chief around to sit on his thumbs. He's there to help in their business of training students.

The flight school isn't there for you to build experience on your way to an airline career. It's there to make money and train student pilots. Hopefully, you have a decent Chief Instructor who is not just out to pad his experience totals or his paycheck while neglecting the junior instructors, and hopefully the flight school doesn't have too many instructors to be able to keep them busy with their student load. If that happens to be the case, or the situation isn't otherwise working out for you, perhaps you should start looking for another situation. However, there is nothing wrong or unfair about a Chief Instructor instructing students.
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