johnpeace
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- Nov 17, 2003
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So you worked in flight school management, and instructed for a single year and have the balls to say that anyone not making money as a CFI is doing it wrong? Yeah you sound like management...completely out of touch with reality.
Also, please do tell the other starving CFIs out there that their mistake is that they don't have "quality clients" and are not delivering "quality customer service"...
Yeah, I do. For 3 years I saw the difference between instructors who kept a full schedule and made money and those who didn't.
I suggest that those who didn't were doing it wrong, based on the assumption that the goal was to make money.
I was pretty in touch with reality...every day I instructed and I looked at the hours I and the other CFIs billed and looked at the ratio of flight:ground hours, the average lesson length, etc.
As an instructor, I pretty much maximized my billed hours and delivered a high quality product to my clients. They appreciated it and referred their friends and I enjoyed a pretty good reputation and just did a good job. It worked. I made good money.
I also got to see CFIs who barely cared and were there to build time. They struggled to find success.
If you aren't making money as a CFI, some self-examination is in order. Perhaps a change of attitude or a change of employment would make the difference between whether you make money or not...but there's money there to be made!
To suggest that it's impossible (or even difficult) to make money as a CFI is irresponsible.