Instruct or Freight
12-20-2017 | 09:35 AM
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Instruct or Freight
I am only at 250 hours and just obtaining my CFI CFII and MEI. The pay is terrible as a CFI but I also have possibility at a small airline where they fly Dornier's. Pay is also not good at the small airline. Should I pursue CFI to get my ATP or go the small airline and get turbine time?
12-20-2017 | 10:14 AM
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Good Lord, please instruct for 700-1000 hrs before you move.
Instructing will teach you more about flying then you’ve ever been taught as a student.
If the school will let you teach Instrument students at night also.
Better for them and better for you.
You can make $40-$50k/year as a CFI even hourly.
If you can’t stand it get at least to 500hrs and get with PlaneSense and get some real world IFR experience in congested airspace.
Leave single pilot night freight to Hogan’s Hero’s.
Instructing will teach you more about flying then you’ve ever been taught as a student.
If the school will let you teach Instrument students at night also.
Better for them and better for you.
You can make $40-$50k/year as a CFI even hourly.
If you can’t stand it get at least to 500hrs and get with PlaneSense and get some real world IFR experience in congested airspace.
Leave single pilot night freight to Hogan’s Hero’s.
12-20-2017 | 10:50 AM
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I am only at 250 hours and just obtaining my CFI CFII and MEI. The pay is terrible as a CFI but I also have possibility at a small airline where they fly Dornier's. Pay is also not good at the small airline. Should I pursue CFI to get my ATP or go the small airline and get turbine time?
12-20-2017 | 12:02 PM
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I went the freight route and it has served me well. I flew as an FO on an EMB-120 and my transition to the 121 airline world has been fairly smooth.
I do think flight instruction time is valuable, however flying bigger aircraft and crewed aircraft is wildly different than any GA stuff. I have seen a few struggle with the transition at my airline.
That being said I've also seen previous 135 guys wash out too.
I do think flight instruction time is valuable, however flying bigger aircraft and crewed aircraft is wildly different than any GA stuff. I have seen a few struggle with the transition at my airline.
That being said I've also seen previous 135 guys wash out too.
12-20-2017 | 05:07 PM
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I went the freight route and it has served me well. I flew as an FO on an EMB-120 and my transition to the 121 airline world has been fairly smooth.
I do think flight instruction time is valuable, however flying bigger aircraft and crewed aircraft is wildly different than any GA stuff. I have seen a few struggle with the transition at my airline.
That being said I've also seen previous 135 guys wash out too.
I do think flight instruction time is valuable, however flying bigger aircraft and crewed aircraft is wildly different than any GA stuff. I have seen a few struggle with the transition at my airline.
That being said I've also seen previous 135 guys wash out too.
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