Air Orlando CFI Pay

[gkrangers]

The "ex-DCA" wasteland? Or mecca depending on how you look at it...

lol...a CFI of mine went there..I don't know if he was a student or instructor, but he is Israeli. Interesting combination.

 

[wheelsup]

$13, hobbs only.

About as crappy as you can get. Don't get me wrong they fly well maintained, new planes. The problem is that they charge $44 to the student and pay $13 to the CFI. Almost criminal.

The problem with Air Orlando is that they used to (not sure if they still do) hire too many CFI's. In the first few months I was flying a boatload. Unless things have changed, the pay scale was tiered and the more you flew the more you made. I remember I was billing 80+ hours per month there at my peak. Then, the owner starting hiring more CFI's which diluted the available/prospective students per instructor. There were something like 30 instructors at one point. That was what did it for me - not the fact that a hurricane went through.

I ended up at a place that I averaged over 11.5 months billing 150 hours per month at $16/hr + overtime if I went over 40 hours in a week. Some weeks I did 65 hours of billable. I made ~2nd year regional jet FO pay there. If it was in FL I would've hung around probably.

 

[crazy8]

Does anyone know about Falcon Flight at SFB?

I know Falcon Flight pays $20 an hour, but you're gonna sit around all day waiting for prospective students to walk through the door. It's not like other academys that feed you students. Granted, most FBO's are like this, but there are other, busier flight schools @ SFB, i.e. Avion, that may pay less, but you'll fly more.