Florida Institute of Technology - Office of the Registrar
-Click on the "Flight Costs" tab-

Funny...

M.T.S.U.:
-Private - MEI: $45,000

F.I.T.:
-Private - Comm ME (No single): $48,140

* FIT NOTE: *
AVF 1001 = Private
AVF 1002 = "Flight 2" = Commercial 141 req'd time building
AVF 2001 = Instrument
AVF 2012 = Commercial Multi

For the same little green licenses, MTSU's winning so far!

As for advice, teaching is the way to go. As a CFI, you can actually STOP paying for your experience AND you will be amazed at how much you will learn from the experiences (and mistakes) of others that you fly with. Once you have your CFI, keep going and crank out your CFII and MEI too. You never know what will come along down the road and if one day you get offered to do three people's initial private licenses in a seminole somehow, I am sure you'd be quite annoyed if you couldn't do it because u didn't go for your MEI way back when. Trust me, I know! Get your CFII and MEI asap as well!

As for finding work as a CFI, the biggest thing is get out there and meet people and be what we all love being, an airport bum! Once u have ur CFI, you are rather valuable to pilots because they need BFR's checkouts, etc from u so the best thing u can do is meet people. Apply for any CFI job you can find and if that doesn't work, then hang out at local FBO's and shoot the breeze with the pilots that pass through. Being an airport bum and telling flying stories and pilot jokes to whom ever will listen really shows fellow sky-lovers just how much you love flying and you'd be surprised how often a casual "Hey! Nice Plane! She's a real beauty!" can turn into 3 or 4 BFR's, IPC's and countless other dual (and fun) flights!

I'm sure you a cool guy and probably a great pilot - however, and this isn't anything personal, it's just that a pilot with 168TT has no business being a CFI.

There is a lot to learn out there!

168hr flight instructor!?!?!?! Thats crazy! I have more time sitting on the crapper on an ATR.

Walking a student through a chandelle or a practice approach is not very hard. It's the accrued wisdom, knowledge, study, experience, improvement, efficiency, style, personal growth, insight, setbacks, reverses, successes, scares, joys, challenges, and overall personal evolution that combine to make a mature aviator. Most people can regurgitate a set of maneuvers long enough to pass the checkride. But it is the gradual building of experience and knowledge over time that no flight training curriculum can give. I had a high pass rate for my training career and I thought it was easy flying airplanes. But this was a dangerous illusion created from having only faced simulated tests where everything was provided to pass. As life went on and I was exposed to real, non-simulated challenges I realized how shallow my world of flight training was. Flight training is no more than a start, and that's all it can be. Continued, meaningful improvement is only possible through continued study and effort, a process that takes time and never stops with the passing of a checkride.

well said Cub. Do yourself a favor and come split some time in a duchess with me next door. Better airplane than the Seminole and alot less expensive.

Almost every instructor at Riddle starts with those times....

I am in the same position as the OP. Which is why I'm going into the Reserves

you might just want to check that bravado and arrogance at the door, especially if you are looking for a bit of help here.