Originally Posted by
atpwannabe
75 hours/mo....optimistic? You think? Based on what I've seen posted on APC's airline's page, most of the guarantees are roughly 70-80 hours a month. Now I know that that's for scheduled airlines however, some of the schools have "quietly" advertised the same amount of hours for instructors. One even said that an instructor could possibly accumulate up to 120 billable hrs/mo. Of course, I'm sure that's assuming full enrollment.
atp
75 hours is optimistic. Billable hours is not always flight time. Also, those schools are trying to advertise a job, they will make it sound as awesome as they can.
You really have to bust your butt to get 75-100 hours FLIGHT time in a month. Especially over an extended time period. As great as 75 hours per month sounds to you right now, be careful of the burnout factor. If you are doing 100 hours in a month considering 2 days off per week thats 5 hours flight time per work day. Add in pre/post brief at 1 hour per student plus preflight/tiedown at lets say 15 mins per student. You'll need probably 3 students to get to 5 hours. You are looking at about a 9 hour day. Thats with NO time for delays, student being late, student not showing up, lunch, weather cancellations, PAPERWORK. The list goes on.
Not trying to discourage you here, just giving you the facts. Please keep in mind that my opinion is somewhat jaded. I have been putting about 5-700 hours per year in my logbook as a CFI for 4ish years. That averages out to 50ish hours per month. Even though I could never imagine doing anything but flying an airplane for a living, there are alot of times that I want nothing more than to NOT be sitting in one.
Good luck.