Alternatives to flight Instruction...????

[VW Pilot]

Hi All

Just would like to know, what are some alternatives to flight instruction?
Just incase I cannot land a CFI (when I get my CFI) Job somewhere to build time. Thought about Civil Air Patrol..but I don't think you get any pay for that.....
if there are some places you can earn some money while building time...
Any suggestions or websites welcome, Thanx and Happy Holidays.

 

[gsrcrsx68]

In my opinion, the best shots at making any money and not instructing, without having to move and without having to kiss much a$$:
1. Aerial photography.
2. Ferrying Aircraft.

Both of these are fairly easy to set up as an independent service. I think there are more opportunities in aerial photography and a higher hourly wage (at least for low timers flying small A/C), coupled with the fact that there is a lot of competition for ferrying jobs.

I have an aerial photography website if you (or anyone else) want to look at it pm me.

 

[pilotyip]

Look into the 135 on demand that operate airplanes needing SIC's, like the Merlin or Shorts 360. They will hire with Comm./MEL/Inst and min time. The work is ruff, the pay terrible, and QOL is non-existent. But is build MEL time, most likely turbine and that is the resume fluff of champions.

 

[Metro752]

hOW can you not land a CFI job

do you smell bad
do u have like an open face wound
do you have ab geezus?

 

[unreal]

hOW can you not land a CFI job

do you smell bad
do u have like an open face wound
do you have ab geezus?

Haha, I've got to agree. CFI jobs are a dime a dozen. Someone will hire you.

 

[plunger]

Hi All

Just would like to know, what are some alternatives to flight instruction?
Just incase I cannot land a CFI (when I get my CFI) Job somewhere to build time. Thought about Civil Air Patrol..but I don't think you get any pay for that.....
if there are some places you can earn some money while building time...
Any suggestions or websites welcome, Thanx and Happy Holidays.

You should have no problem getting a CFI job. Especially right now. If you have the ticket your all but hired. The regionals are picking up guys with as little as 500hrs. I know of a few places deserate for CFI's here in Florida. Embry Riddle being one. Pay is ok but the benefits are good. Health insurance and FREE TUITION! Delta Connection Academy is also looking for instructors. You just have to be willing to go where the jobs are.

 

[VW Pilot]

RE METRO....Nah...non of the abouve.....or anything else.

 

[siucavflight]

Pipeline patrol
banner towing
flying jumpers

 

[unreal]

To the OP: Just get your ratings and you shouldn't have a problem getting a CFI job. They're VERY plentiful right now, and I would know. I landed my current job even having not flown regularly for 2 years prior to my start date. A lot of places are hurting, evidenced by the fact that someone hired a non-current sap like me.

By the way, I'm sure most of those other jobs are good ones and would get you the hours you need, but being an instructor is a good gig. Not just for hours, but for your own experience level and knowledge. I learn new things everyday, and I simply teach instruments in a C172. It amazes me how little I knew about instrument flying when I was a student, and it sometimes amazes me right now how little I still know about instrument flying as an active instructor. One thing is for certain though: the things you learn are things that you can't learn through flight training. They can only be learned through experience. Go be a CFI. It's good for ya!

 

[avbug]

Unreal,

Hopefully you're learnng new things all the time. I got playing with some avionics simulator software last night, and found about half a dozen things with a particular avionics package I didn't know about...includng some surprisingly basic things. I've been flying this particular nav unit for nearly three months, almost exclusively in IMC all the time, approaches all the time...and I just found this out. I'm guessing tomorrow I'll find something else out.

No matter what you do, if you're determined to keep learning something, you will. Knowledge, like skills in this business, is perishable. If you're not learning, you're "unlearning."

When I first started spraying, I thought I had the tiger by the tail. I was in a turn one day, and my boss was on my case on the radio, telling me to tighten up the turn. If you haven't seen an ag turn, it's a steep turn with a reversal at 75'or so, often lower, and often tight enough that you an milk it in and out of the buffet as you turn. I was pulling as tight as I dared, and he was trying to get me to pull it tighter. I didn't think it could be done. I was holding a steep bank, pulling and I could feel the airplane barking and buffeting...I thought if I pulled harder I'd be a stall-spin accident.

I looked up through my overhead eyebrow indows to see the belly of my bosses airplane passing me inside the turn. Just a few feet from my canopy, he was showing me it could be done, and I knew he was carrying more chemical than me, and therefore heavier. But how?

Back on the ground he asked me what I was doing to make a turn, and told me to explain a turn to him. I felt a little insulted...after all, do you ask someone how they make a turn in a car, or on a bicycle? He said humor him. So I did. When I finished, he asked why I wasn't holding top rudder. I didn't want to spin out of the turn when I stalled, of course. Try it next time.

So I did. I held a steep bank and some top rudder, lettng the fuselage take over with some lift as I sliced back through the turn, and I immediately felt the drag go away. I'd been using bottom rudder, horsing the airplane around. Suddenly I could feel the change, and the airplane quit buffeting like it did before. I could pull it around tighter before reaching that point, and I was a lot more comfortable in the turns.

Now I was eighteen at time. I'd spent six months training to fly ag airplanes, and I thought I had a handle on things. I'd been reading books on flying since junior high school, been active at the airport working and flying and bummng rides for five years before that...and here I was relearning the most basic parts of flying, as though I'd just started.

That theme has continued through my career thus far...each time I learn something, I realize how much it is I don't know, and often have to ask myself how much that I "know" I know incorrectly. For every thing I learn, I realize there were two things I didn't know...and this goes on and on. No matter what you do, you'll forever be learning new things. This applies regardless of the assignment, so long as you are open to learning them. For those who aren't, no job will be more than a job, and such will never gain experience. Only hours. For those who are open, every job will be a school, and every flight an opportunity.

Sounds like you have a great opportunity.