A ray of sunshine for CFI's

[Fly BI]

I've been reading this board for a long time but only recently registered to post. The reason is to counter some rampant negativity from a few others.

My school is really busy, employing 22 "fulltime" CFI's. I started there in June 2003. Since then, we've lost 8 CFI's, hired 4 new ones and are picking up 2 more this month. Five CFI's went to 135 operators with one of the five having only C-208's. Two went to Ameriflight and one to Horizon. Most of these guys had between 1000-1400 TT. The exception was the guy that went to Horizon (2200 TT).

We've had an additional 4 CFI's get interviewed recently but not get job offers (Ameriflight, Mesa, Skywest). The moral of the story: Everything is going to be OK. In the immortal words of Robert Plant, "you're time is gonna come".

 

[MarineGrunt]

Where are you located? I'm looking for CFI work in the SLC area. PM me if by some miracle you are located there. Thanx.

 

[JetSpeed219]

That scenario sounds really familiar, are you by chance out at Hillsboro Aviation?

 

[need2AV8]

same kind of movement being seen at many flt schools, including where I work (Sierra Academy)

 

[Fly BI]

Ahhh Jetspeed, you are wise beyond your years.

 

[JetSpeed219]

Well thankyou.........My instructor was one of the ones who was just hired by Ameriflight........I'm in the process of finding a new instructor and since I've done my training in the seminole since my private, they have all been bombarding my instructor.