Wow kinda puts this market in real perspective when even a CFI can't find a job....sigh...guess ill take my time on the rating

Look, we'd love to give you a job, but it's hourly. No students, no pay, so that doesn't help anyone. Instructing jobs are tough everywhere, but there are are a few in Iraq for the US that has you fly C172's for about 100K a year. Although it's 9 months straight 7 days a week.... pretty good money.

Iraq you say...care to PM me the details?

Prior Mil IP's with a CFI should look at Doss Aviation. very good pay flying with AF Lt's who are heading off to UPT.

The two instruction outfits that I am familiar with (2 largest in Chicago)...
both are overstaffed. One place advertises "guarantees jobs" to anyone who starts CFI training, and thus now have lots of instructors with few students.

The other place i'm referring to...hired several new instructors but have had nowhere near normal attrition due to hiring, so there are lean times for everyone...young CFI's with thousands of hours TT/ hundreds of hours of multi...

As a Purdue grad, the school went from being 2 full time-instructors understaffed as recently as spring 2008 (salary, benefits, constant student load, 5 day schedule) to (obviously) not hiring anyone anytime soon.

The ab-inition places out west are always advertising for CFI's, but beware of unusually high "pay scales"...I have had several friends get burned by such places in the last year.

Transpac in Phoenix if you can stand the soon-to-come heat.

This was the job I was thinking of Pilot Job :: Fixed Wing Simulation Instructor Pilot - Cessna 172 (Iraq) . Expired now, but there's some stuff still over there, just harder to find.

Yeah Jet U I called up I applied awhile ago and the lady said they hired the last CFI bout 2 months ago. I guess we have to wait till the summer hopefully these flight schools get some more foreign contracts seems to be the only way U.S flight schools are growing right now. Good luck everyone.

Some of you need to realize that, back in 2007 when the hiring frenzy was going on, me in that frenzy (RAH), there was a national shortage of CFI's. Well, when the ****** hit the fan with furloughs, all those pilots, at least a vast majority of them went back to their former CFI jobs. I did not stay at RAH, hated it, another story. I have been a CFI for 34 years (part-time), and have seen the ups and downs in the industry. Hold on, it will come back around again!

In Colorado, try Doss Aviation Initial Flight Screening:Home . $72000 a year.

Lee