Hello all,
I have a burning question that i need a answer to. I currently have my CFIME, CFISE and CFII and i have job offers from two different flight schools in my area and i need some good advice from the forum.
The first flight school i will on average get about 80-100 hours a month including multi-engine, cross country, simulated instrument and SE of course.
The second school i will on average get about 100-135 hours a month and both these numbers are based on people that i know who work for each flight school and not what the website or the hiring people are telling me. Now the only thing about this flight school is it will all be Single Engine VFR flight time no cross country, insturment etc..
Now my question is which is going to matter more from the regionals, the hours simply or the quality of hours that i got from the instruction?
Thanks in advance!

 

Hours. Period.

Are you still breathing? Have 1430+ hrs? You'll have several job offers.

 

The atp cert has more requirements than total time.

 

Busy 141 schools are the way to go, both sound good, get as much Cross Country as you can.

 

It used to matter. Now it's just the fastest path to 1500 TT in an airplane, period.

 

Take the first offer.
It may take a couple of months longer but see it as valuable experience and expanding YOUR skills.
Try and fill as many columns in your logbook as you can.
I've never understood why CFII's hesitate to take their Instrument students up at night. For one thing they can't cheat as much and it's better in your logbook.
Don't screw over your student, NEVER screw your student but it's good for them and good for you.
The ATP XC requirements are the only ones that do not require a landing so if the IAF waypoint is 50+ miles from your home airport you can log that as XC.

Stay safe out there, flight instruction is dangerous.

 

This^. Also, instrument instruction is relatively safer compared to primary instruction. In theory, your instrument student has a certificate and can, in theory, land an airplane. This rule does not readily apply to Chinese students so be warned if you go to the foreign pilot mills. With few exceptions, instrument instruction can be done in IMC as well. Just use common sense when doing so and only after your student can balance an HSI needle on the ass end of an ant.

 

PPL instruction is dangerous because they simply don't know any better. But you'll soon learn that anything below a 1000' can kill you and above it doesn't.
Instrument instruction is dangerous because you need to spend a lot of time inside the airplane trying to find where they're going wrong.
As soon as possible start filing IFR on training flights.
Multi training is the most dangerous because they will try and kill you out of ignorance and not caring to understand.
Do not do a Vmc demo unless they fully understand it on the ground. An FTD or basic sim is even better.
You'd also think that most can fly by the time they reach the Multi but some still don't understand the rules of the game.