A question for those who’d care to answer…

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

A question for those who’d care to answer…

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Here’s the deal: Part time CFI, with a full time day job. Flight school has no twin, and has no plans on getting a twin. No flight schools in the immediate area have twins, nor are they currently hiring. Currently at 900/0



What do you think sounds like a better plan:

1) get an ME and MEI at ATP and “try” to get on as an outside instructor



2) or, just get the ME and try to split multi with another dude (5 to 6 hours a month) for a year while building the IFR 135 mins?



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Anything else I may have missed?

 

[atrdriver]

A question for those who’d care to answer…

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Here’s the deal: Part time CFI, with a full time day job. Flight school has no twin, and has no plans on getting a twin. No flight schools in the immediate area have twins, nor are they currently hiring. Currently at 900/0



What do you think sounds like a better plan:

1) get an ME and MEI at ATP and “try” to get on as an outside instructor



2) or, just get the ME and try to split multi with another dude (5 to 6 hours a month) for a year while building the IFR 135 mins?
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Anything else I may have missed?

You might want to see if there is a flying club in your area that has a twin. Most flying clubs are looking for instructors.

 

[CUEBOAT]

whatever you do get a ME comm&MEI, and get the hell out of dodge. I always look at the flight schools with no twins as dead end jobs. As for buying time do the math.

6hrs a month X 12(one year)= 72 hours, hardly enough to get noticed.

now for cost

150(being generous with the cost) an hour X 72/2= $5400

checkout aribenaviator.com buy a hundred hours for them it will cost a little bit more, and start looking for a cfi job that has twin on the property.

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

You might want to see if there is a flying club in your area that has a twin. Most flying clubs are looking for instructors.

Yea, plenty of those around, with beat up 172s and Archers for 95/hours...
This AriBen deal, does it really take 3 weeks to build 100 hours?

 

[mayday1]

This AriBen deal, does it really take 3 weeks to build 100 hours?

my former instructor is there right now building 150hrs over 3 weeks... averaging about 7-8hrs/day. As I understand, you do most of your time building at night (e.g. he's scheduled 4pm-midnight) everyday. I believe you can probably do 100hrs in about 10 days, provided you can get the plane, and have a partner who's also willing to fly 9-11hrs/day. I'd give them a call and see what they say.

 

[ceo_of_the_sofa]

my former instructor is there right now building 150hrs over 3 weeks... averaging about 7-8hrs/day. As I understand, you do most of your time building at night (e.g. he's scheduled 4pm-midnight) everyday. I believe you can probably do 100hrs in about 10 days, provided you can get the plane, and have a partner who's also willing to fly 9-11hrs/day. I'd give them a call and see what they say.

What's that costing him? Is it hood time?

 

[mayday1]

I think Ariben advertises 100hrs for $6495.. you fly your 100hrs with someone else, each trading off as safety pilot. Not the most ideal situation, but if you actually use the time to shoot approaches all over FL, and not just take long xcountries, it can be valuable.