Thats just for PPL instruction.

For IFR and beyond I make $40/hr. For multi I make $50/hr.


My advice with the DCA interview is to run, not walk away. No one I know how has worked, or does work for DCA enjoyed it. You're not going to do much flying anyway.

 

$17 , Is That A Joke?

 

Yeah, but you were probably working your ass off. I'm earning less now than I was instructing but have flown a grand total of 40 minutes in the past three weeks. It's all relative, really. I'd rather sit on my ass and get paid than to be a slave to the instructing schedule I used to have. That wasn't fun at all.

 

Not to drift too much, but what are CFIs being paid these days? $11/hr. is absolutely insane! I recall making $17/hr. back in 1999 at a smaller operator in ATL. I'm by no means a union guy, but it appears that CFIs are being abused by these guys!

 

It was $10 an hr till around the end of 2007 start of 2008.

 

I didn't realize instructors there got Delta benefits... is that how they justify the low pay? Kinda sucks if so, I already have airline benefits from the furlough.

I've always thought that forcing CFI's to wear epaulets is pathetic... "All hail the mighty Cessna captain..."

Agreed on the low pay. There's a place in Fairbanks, AK paying $30/hr for 172 instruction. No goofy uniform required.

Thanks for the info guys, sounds like I might as well give it a shot. Anything beats sitting around the apartment all day...

 

I also began instructing there in 2001. Take it for what it's worth. It's an instructor job. I remember getting paid $10.00/hr. There was a test before the interview or CFI stuff. In the interview I sat with the President of the school, the Vice President, Chief Pilot, Assistant Chief and one Group Leader. There was a few basic HR questions from the Vice President. A few WWYD if questions from the assistant Chief and then the President asked me to explain P-factor to her. She claimed that she had no clue what it was and wanted to see where I would start with fresh student pilot. Once hired we went through a week and a half Standardization Class. Let me tell you that looking back on it now it wasn't that bad, but when I started at the airlines, my initial ground school was easier than that standz class. Well...Less stressful anyway. There was a check flight in the middle of that class as well. All being said, I had much more fun teaching at DCA than putting up with Company/Union politics at Comair. If I could get paid a decent wage and be home every night I wouldn't hesitate to take the job.

 

Sounds like perfect prep for a regional, especially Comair.

 

Are people still training there? I thought their big selling point was that they guaranteed an airline interview after training? Seeing as everyone is furloughing right now, I don't see that interview turning out too well...

 

From what I've heard it's mainly foreign pilot training.