Delta Connection Academy Hiring Senior CFI

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Job Title:Senior Flight Instructor
Location:FLORIDA USA
Salary Range:Neg-Neg
Email:[email protected]
Job Desc:Delta Connection Academy is hiring Flight Instructors at the following locations:
Florida
Texas
Ohio
Massachusetts.

Great benefits and airline travel on Delta Air Lines. E-mail resume to [email protected] or fax to 407-688-2777.
Benefits:Full-Time Permanent Employees will be offered Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, Supplemental Insurance, 401K Retirement. FT & PT Permanent employees are offered flight privileges on Delt Air Lines.
Requirements:Must hold your CFII with an 80% pass rate. 400 hours dual given or 2 years experience as a flight instructor Minimum 1 year commitment.

 

[StrykerFL]

Yeah, 1 year commitment just to earn $10/hr.

 

[joepilot29]

Maybe I should reapply. They wouldn't hire me 3 years ago. Funny thing is I was just hired at Comair without their "guaranteed interview" after they brainwashed us into thinking you can't go to the airlines without them.

 

[coltsfn8888]

The guaranteed interview is all bs anyway. Its just a way for them to get their cfi's and students not to complain about all the crap management spits out. Had a buddy who completed his "time requirements" for the guaranteed interview and they said ok go ahead and apply. The entire system is an evil management team combined with very good marketers.

 

[Way2Broke]

No Senior position should EVER pay 10 dollars a hour.

 

[SSMOWS6]

I agree with the evil management. They fired the chief instructor at SFB. He was a good guy. He helped me with some trouble in instrument. That place isn't worth the measly $10 an hour. They also don't like complaints.

Not to mention that one of my best friends boyfriend works at Wal Mart for $10 an hour. Thats extremely sad.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

No Senior position should EVER pay 10 dollars a hour.

It's all part of the Grand Sceme. $10 an hour or less flight instructing sure makes $20 an hour to fly an RJ seem like a pot of gold.

 

[saviboy]

I agree with the evil management. .

absolutely agreed. it was horrible. i am glad it s over

 

[craftkeeper2001]

What a bunch of cry babies!

 

[saviboy]

What a bunch of cry babies!

can you elaborate?
Have you worked or studied there?

 

[deadstick]

A few observations...

1) These position have been posted for awhile. If the $10/hr is legit, now we know why.

2) As soon as somebody accepts the $10/hr management job, the next CFI job will be $8/hr.

Sometimes I feel our industry is similar to government contracting -- the job goes to the lowest bidder. As long as somebody is willing to do that job for that small amount of money, there is no motivation or reason for the industry to change. Like I said, those positions have been open for awhile. This is a good thing.

New Poll:

What hourly rates have people earned as a CFI?

I'll start.
$15, $22.50, $27.50

...and the $27.50 was in a place that does not have a high cost of living.

 

[Almerick07]

I started part time at $10 got my CFII got $11 got my MEI and was making $13. I was in college in a VERY low cost of living area. The next job instructing job i took paid $22 with benefits, my parents are paying my little sisters gymnastics coach $35 an hour. I guess thats why Im getting out of aviation...

 

[Way2Broke]

I got paid $20 a hour for single, $27 for multi, and $30 for customer's aircraft and that up to 4 years ago. Anything special like cirrus time was negotiated. Also, none of this includes the money I made for teaching grounds schools, which I believe averaged out to about $30 a hour.

Delta connection charges something like $54 a hour for dual and only pays the instructor 8-10 a hour. That should be criminal. They also charge a couple of thousand at least for their ground schools and only pay the instructor $8-10 a hour.

 

[deadstick]

More ramblings of an under-utilized mind...

Sanford, Fla.—Dec. 12, 2006—Delta Connection Academy, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines and a leading aviation institution known for training some of the industry’s finest pilots, today accepted delivery of the first of 50 new Cirrus SR20 Glass cockpit aircraft for use at their flight school located in Sanford, Florida. The arrival of the remaining 49 aircraft is scheduled to be completed by March 2008. The academy also has options for an additional eight aircraft.

1) Let's start a pool...pick a day that the first DCA SR20 "lands" under the chute.

2) I just reread the original post. A "Senior CFI" is one with 400 hours of dual given?!?!? Please refer to Item #1.

3) What is going to happen when they (refer to Item #2) are teaching stalls in the SR 20 (that still has the new plane smell) and the student stomps on the wrong pedal? (refer to Item #1) I guess that's what the "options for an additional eight aircraft" is for. Will that be enough?

 

[FmrFreightDog]

I started part time at $10 got my CFII got $11 got my MEI and was making $13. I was in college in a VERY low cost of living area. The next job instructing job i took paid $22 with benefits, my parents are paying my little sisters gymnastics coach $35 an hour. I guess thats why Im getting out of aviation...

Or is it really because you like the idea of little girls on sawhorses???? Gymnastics in your future?

Relax. Joking. I'm getting out of aviation too. Just as soon as I figure out what else I know how to do.....

 

[Bryan D]

Oh God I would love to have this job! Is Susan Burrell still there? I have a fantasy about her that involves jumper cables and duct tape.

 

[joepilot29]

Hmmm..I have been thinking about a lateral career move. I currently make $23/hr and no flight benefits, but $10/hr with flight benefits....sounds like a regional. I guess I would be a SUPER SENIOR flight instructor with 900 hrs dual given and 3 years exp. Screw that place.

 

[WestHouston]

I'm a student at the EFD base. The instructors now get a whopping $11 an hour. I'm probably not going to work there even if they payed more. I live an hour away. On a side note,I live a mile from DWH. I went in the other day and asked if they were hiring help at United Flight Systems. They assumed I was a flight instructor and started begging me to apply there. And the place I was at starts guys at more than $11 an hour.

 

[Magic1872]

How about that 100,000 price tag on your training???