CFI pay

[stupidwork]

wow a semi serious response... but of course you know my capabilities because you know everthing right?

 

[stupidwork]

i aint never spelled any good....

 

[stupidwork]

okay im done ive wasted too much time here today... have fun guys

 

[stupidwork]

i saw a couple of spelling errors on your posts.... i just dont care to go back and edit my posts.... now im done.

 

[infiniti757]

Dca?

Been looking through the threads for a while. What is DCA?

 

[stupidwork]

delta connection acadamy.... i think it used to be comair acadamy not sure of that though

 

[stupidwork]

infiniti757, looks like you have been around for a while. just wondering what you think of all this. if you dont respond ill understand why. there is a lot of crap on these forums but some good info if you can stand to sift through it all. just wondering any comments?

 

[skygod75]

Been looking through the threads for a while. What is DCA?

DCA = Delta Comair Academy. Buffet's comments are actually a welcome dose of disgust with the industry. It was because of people like Buffet that I realized this industry was simply a young, rich-kid's game. Two years ago I was riding a Beech 1900 run by Gulfstream Academy. If you could only see the look of disappointment when I realized that I would have my life in the hands of some rich kid trying to play pilot for a day. I, being from the west coast, decided to travel east for a visit to FL. Upon boarding, I peeked my head in the cockpit and said "hm, I didn't know this 1900 had 20 fare-paying passengers aboard?" Ah, yes, the stunned look of silence.

There is always the option of getting out, finding another industry, and still flying for fun. It's simply not worth it to beat yourself up in the hopes of one day getting an airline job. So long as we are disillusioned with the industry, we shall continue to be recepticles for the shaft.

What troubles me about this industry the most is that one is considered a "loser" (not my phraseology, but that of others) if one doesn't work for the airlines. There are other jobs in aviation that can be equally rewarding and not be airline jobs.

What I have noticed here is that some folks have simply been "flight schooled." Being "flight schooled" is unlike going to flight school. You can be flight schooled and have never attended a flight school. In fact, people all over the world are being flight schooled every day and they are silently unware of that very fact. Here are some of the signs that you are being flight schooled.

1) Someone asks you: "How much multi-time do you have?" even though you don't have a multi-engine rating.

2) In the CFI lounge, you are constantly pestered by a fellow CFI with the following: "Hey, did you get your thousand hours yet?" This question is usually asked multiple times a day when he knows that you're at 600 or so hours and simply didn't complete that 400 hour x-c trip to hell.

3) "Are the airlines hiring?"

4) "I bet you can't wait to get the class date for the jet!"

5) "I calculated my actual IFR total. It's 2.1229 hours"

This sad representation of "intelligent talk" is usually conducted, with the exception of #2, on the flightline where instructors walk around in their captain's uniforms with the "Top Gun Anthem" blaring in their skulls as they see a fellow CFI's 172 taxi by. Being flight schooled, of course, is as common as the skidmarks on one's underpants at places like Wastewind, Pan-Scam, and Delta Comscare Academy. However, aviation isn't the only field. Financial services, engineering, and public service all have their versions of being flight schooled. A wise man once said: "Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat." The sad thing with CFIs is that there are so many rats that cheese is a hard item to find. And I'm not talking buttcheese, folks. There will always be plenty of those morsels lying around. Just pick up a copy of AOPA Flight Training or Flying and you'll find it dripping with such garbage.

I know a guy who was a DCA hopeful and now works as a baggage screener for TSA. I walked up to him one day and asked him how it felt to be "Thoughtlessly Standing Around?" (TSA). He nodded and asked me: "How do I get the fark out of this mess?"

You just do. Get out and breathe a sign of relief when you do. It'll be the biggest psychological dump you take and when you hit the flusher on the way out, you'll feel mighty good you did.

 

[Kream926]

regarding the title of this thread, where i work we get time and a half for every hour flown over 50 per month. add in the ground time and the 2 hours a night for private classes that i teach it can add up to a nice chunk of change per month. 7 of our 13 CFI's usually get right around 90 hours per month

 

[stupidwork]

thats almost what we have only its 44hrs, but in the midwest the 80 to 90 hours in the summer goes down to 20 to 30 hours in the winter. id move somewhere warm but thankfully my wife can more than make up the difference in income.

hey buffett.....DCADCADCADCADCA.....that must be what you see in your head since that is all you can talk about.... your not there any more get over it. your response to the last post was about DCA (what a shocker) but the post you were responding to had nothing to do with DCA. This post has nothing to do with DCA along with every other post besides the one that is actually about DCA. SO STAY ON THAT THREAD AND THAT TREAD ONLY!!!!

i know im just feeding the fire responding to buffettck....i have nothing better to do right now