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Originally Posted by MercuryBirdman
Does anyone have any recent experience of instructing at Transpac in Phoenix or know anyone who does? I'd like to hear some stories? Would it be worth it to leave my family for a bit to do it? How long does it take on average to get the hours required for American Eagle? These are just some questions I have regarding Transpac. I have many more. Any information would be great.
Wow. This is a loaded question. I would NOT leave your family for this gig. Take it from someone who has worked there and is extremely glad I don't anymore. Let me put it this way (and as you read my repsonse, don't forget that all of this is riding on YOUR CFI certificate) - you'll get 4 or 5 chinese students who can hardly speak any english. Then you'll teach them how to use the radios and no one can understand what they're saying (especially ATC). Then you'll have them solo and they'll almost kill themselves and other innocent pilots flying as well beause they can't comunicate. Then you'll send them on their checkride and they'll fail and the FAA will come to YOU asking why in the hell you can't teach anyone how to fly. Then you'll start all over again once your students finally do pass their checkride after multiple attempts.
The "pipeline" agreement that TransPac has with American Eagle giving their CFI's interviews when they reach 1500 hours is crap. You're going to be working at one crappy job for a while till you get up to 1500 hours, then you get to go work at a crappy regional who will treat you like dirt until you're able to move up to a major. Nuff said. Take from it what you will...