FlightSafety Pay
04-15-2016, 07:00 PM
#22
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Joined APC: Nov 2015
Posts: 9
Still horrible. A lot of quality people that wanted to try to be home every night are walking out the door because quality of life at FSI is worse than being rotated out to the road. The wrong people get promoted (because no one else wants the job for a measly increase, except promotion wannabes without skills), and those people then make perpetual bad decision after bad decision. Too bad to, because it could be a really good gig. Unfortunately, an embedded bureaucracy (FAA's got nothing on FSI) and management ruined a good thing. So, plan to work your butt off for lower pay than our competitors. You'll know your schedule one week at a time if you're lucky. That week will probably change too. When there is a slowdown, you'll be terminated, not furloughed. Happened twice already this century. It would take a complete restructuring of management to have any positive change, and that's not anywhere close to happening.
FlightSafety Pay
04-18-2016, 03:51 PM
#24
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: Retired for now
Posts: 233
Originally Posted by MD11
Thanks for the response KingAirDriver,
I suppose they could staff with retired airline pilots, but that might difficult to run a biz with employees that only want to work one day a week.
I suppose they could staff with retired airline pilots, but that might difficult to run a biz with employees that only want to work one day a week.
04-21-2016, 06:27 PM
#26
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Joined APC: Nov 2015
Posts: 9
Every FlightSafety location is desperately short instructors. I don't mean 1 or 2 instructors, I mean LOTS (I've spoken with employees at a number of centers). They can't hire anyone. Two year non-prorated contract - minimum. Your first 6 months will be easy, but once you get qualified, you're theirs. With that comes the necessary requirement of doing your job plus the job of the non-existent instructors that they can't hire. It is worse than being an on call corporate pilot. Check out Glass Door job reviews. They are accurate. The only good reviews are from non-instructor positions or from mgmt people that signed up using a fake email account. You can tell because the good one's are about a half a sentence. The accurate one's are lengthy. Nothing will change until a new corporate management staff takes over. That isn't in the works. If you don't mind suffering for a number of years with a hope that something will improve, then its worth a shot.
Anyway, not trying to be a downer, but letting you know that your schedule will be rough (with constant changes), pay will be below competitors, management is weak/inexperienced/unqualified/too new, and nothing is being done to effectively deal with staffing issues. Also, the better instructors are leaving or trying to leave, and the older staff are planning to retire because they are worn out.
Anyway, not trying to be a downer, but letting you know that your schedule will be rough (with constant changes), pay will be below competitors, management is weak/inexperienced/unqualified/too new, and nothing is being done to effectively deal with staffing issues. Also, the better instructors are leaving or trying to leave, and the older staff are planning to retire because they are worn out.
04-22-2016, 10:05 AM
#28
New Hire
Joined APC: Nov 2015
Posts: 9
Part time is the best choice if you don't have to worry about health insurance or other benefits. I think pay is $55 an hour (you get additional prep time counted toward your day). You tell them your availability, and they will use you if needed. They don't hire too many PT people directly - at least not like they used to. Many part timers start out full time, then go part time because the company can't afford to lose anyone. If you want a steady schedule and decent QOL, then part-time is the only way that that's going to be guaranteed. FSI could be a great place to work, but mgmt ruins it with their decisions. A snail could make an effective problem solving decision faster than our managers. As a result we are experiencing a massive instructor/TCE shortage that can't seem to be fixed. They are really slow at committing to staff related issues. Its very frustrating seeing a potentially good employer make consistently bad decisions.
05-29-2016, 02:32 PM
#29
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2011
Position: in a Big Box that moves back,forth, up, down and makes cool sounds
Posts: 352
Originally Posted by Std Deviation
The retired airline guys used to be common years ago. Why? They retired at 60 and needed a place to work that would provide medical insurance until they qualified for Medicare at 65. Now with the increased retirement age at 121, the guys over 60 are dwindling. I've actually seen instructors dragging along a medical oxygen bottle and cannula when teaching in the sim.
One of the biggest mistakes of my professional life was going to work there.
I had some loser in upper management actually tell me that I wasn't a pilot anymore.
By the way, they talk a big game about how much they value their instructors but about two years in, if you are not pursuing a management position there, you are pretty much deadwood in their eyes.
K
07-18-2016, 01:09 PM
#30
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jun 2016
Posts: 105
Would love to chat with anyone who is working/has worked at the CMH location. Feel free to PM to share your experience, good or bad. Currently military and looking to separate, move to the Columbus area, and spend as much time as possible at home...thanks!
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