8 hour flight day

[WhiteCloud]

I admire your ambition, but my concern is that you're headed for a major burnout if you continue to keep this pace up. 8 hours of CFI work is a lot to do in a day. It's supposed to be a maximum, not a goal.

 

[WhiteCloud]

Not sure what set of regs you guys are using, but commercial flying is commercial flying. CFIing absolutely counts towards your 121 duty time limitations if you get paid for it. The only paid flying that does not count is military flying.

I got a different version of "commercial flying" from a fed. It was based on the concept that working as a CFI requires only a third class medical when acting as PIC or no medical when the trainee is acting as PIC. Commercial flying requires a 2nd class medical. I have no idea if this is the correct version so I'm just bring it up as discussion and not saying it's correct. As usual, I imagine the definition of "commercial flying" varies from fed to fed and company to company.