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Old 12-24-2011, 12:17 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777 View Post
Generally waaay overpriced to get trained by underpaid entry-level CFI's. They basicaly specialize in separating rich middle-aged guys from their money. These guys assume that if it costs more, it must be better.

Also a lot of variability between locations, it all depends on the local chief pilot.

The 30-day CFI program is usually a good deal, that's the only thing I'd recommend. But you won't get the ratings in 30 days...you'll need study/practice time after the scheduled training, plus scheduling delays for examiners. I'd plan on 4-6 weeks after the 30 day academy ends (AF won't tell you this up front).
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The American flyers is basically a flying club for the affluent professionals, doctors, lawyers etc etc..... Nothing wrong with that, it's just another business....... They have an excellent sales team which packages & sells the programs very well........

The CFI Academy at Pompono Beach FL location is a very good program. The academy style 8 AM to 5 PM training, a group of 5 to 10 students who take turns to teach the rest of the group, good Instructors, basically a very good platform to learn & practice teaching.

It is advertised for $2999 but when you add the cost of manuals which they issue, FAA writtens plus Examiner fees for check rides & some other overheads, it comes to about $5000 total.

It still is the cheapest program in the country for CFI(A) & CFII. But the amount of effort & time spent on the program is worth a lot more. The pass rate is very, very high & most of the people pass the initial CFI on the 1st attempt.

Again, it is a business & the company is not doing any charity by subisdising the CFI academy...... The low price attracts the best talents in the country to come there for for CFI & They do it to find their next generation of instructors, right individuals whom they have trainied & watched. They have 1 full month to evaluate each candidate, every day & without the candidate even knowing that he is being screened for a possible future job....

American Flyers then cherry picks the best of LOT & may offer them a job right away or at a later date.

Even though there is no guaranty of a job, but in the past, A lot of people from CFI academy have been offered a job to work with American Flyers.

I have seen the academy at PMP very closely myself & know someone who used to work there, so I will recomend that place for a CFI program & only for CFI program
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Old 12-24-2011, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by bcpilot View Post
The low price attracts the best talents in the country to come there for for CFI
Wait..what? Is that a joke?
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Old 12-26-2011, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by bcpilot View Post
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it comes to about $5000 total.

It still is the cheapest program in the country for CFI(A) & CFII.

I have seen the academy at PMP very closely myself & know someone who used to work there, so I will recomend that place for a CFI program & only for CFI program
American Flyer's CFI program is not the cheapest in the country.
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Old 12-27-2011, 12:46 PM
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I have some experience with the Morristown 30 day CFI program.

I graduated from a 141 college last August, grabbing my commercial/instrument ticket around August 4th. I was set to start up at a University for business school september 12th....

I tried to do a 30 day program, starting a week after completing my commercial checkride, hoping to finish before school started next month. Needless to say that was completely unrealistic.

My advice- Go into it prepared... Get all the writtens done (FOI,CFI-A,CFII) before you even start. I spent 2 weeks there studying for the writtens, and making lesson plans. I had never even gotten into the airplane, and decided that 2 weeks into it was a good time to stop going because there was no way I was going to finish. I told them I planned to go back during winter break to finish up, but since then I have kind of lost the motivation to become a CFI and plan to visit them sometime in the next week to ask about getting a refund of the unspent money I have there on my account (we'll see how that conversation goes)

Overall, the instructors there were very good. They def knew what they were talking about and could usually give detailed explanations of very complex questions confidently off the top of their heads.
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