ERAU Prescott CFI Interview

[BYUFlyr]

I have an upcoming interview at ERAU in AZ for a CFI position.... Any pointers/info on what to expect? Is it pretty straight forward? Thanks...

 

[RiddleRat]

BYUFlyer....Good luck and congrats on the interview. Its a long day, and it will consist of a FTD where you will teach BAI, Climbs, Desecents, etc, just simple instrument Maneuvers, then move onto a Flight where it is VFR Maneuvers. From there you will go into a room w/ 3 folks from Management where it will be mostly HR type questions along with some technical stuff, nothing too complex. After that you can expect to take a written test, about 100 questions. Overall its a good experience and a long experience to say the least! Good luck and PM me if you have any questions.

 

[JonnyBravo]

BYUFlyer, I second the good luck. I gave the interview rides 9 years ago. Pretty straight forward. It was a great place to work, build time fast SE adn ME.

 

[Metro752]

http://ihateerauprescott.blogspot.com/


I always wondered why some airline pilots cringed when I said I wanted to go to "Embry Riddle" when I was like 10.

EDIT: Work is work though

 

[Steveair]

Don't you ER guys have to join a union? Go through upgrade classes to teach other courses? Do you at least get benefits? From what I've heard, ER is a giant pain in the ass to instruct at.

 

[RiddleRat]

Daytona is like that w/ the union and everything. If you upgrade in an aircraft IE teachin in the seminole, they put you through an upgrade course, but its good refresher and free multi so you can't go wrong there, the benefits are awesome though, full covereage and w/ retirement, you really cant go wrong, other than bein in Prescott, which isnt exciting, but it could be worse I guess....

 

[Steveair]

How much does it cost to be in your union?


What are your hourly rates?

 

[RiddleRat]

I dont know what DAB has, Prescott does not have a union

 

[greygoose]

Sad, a flight school became unionized.

 

[mnixon]

why is that sad grey goose? are we not worthy pilots yet?

 

[greygoose]

No, its the fact that you guys cant stand up for yourselves and have to have a union do it. How many instructors do you have 50 - 100? Its a big difference when a airline has hundreds of pilots.

 

[bitememesa]

jesus...there's nothing to stand up for as a Riddle Instructor anyway. talk about a rough life. How many other CFIs do you know that got health benefits, retirement, guaranteed students, phase maintenance, etc?

Mind you all this happened before the Riddle kids thought they'd become cooler by being in a union.

 

[Steveair]

jesus...there's nothing to stand up for as a Riddle Instructor anyway. talk about a rough life. How many other CFIs do you know that got health benefits, retirement, guaranteed students, phase maintenance, etc?

Mind you all this happened before the Riddle kids thought they'd become cooler by being in a union.

Minus the retirement, about 250 und CFI's...

still no union, no upgrade classes, no 135K tuition

 

[mnixon]

No, its the fact that you guys cant stand up for yourselves and have to have a union do it. How many instructors do you have 50 - 100? Its a big difference when a airline has hundreds of pilots.

My employer currently has about 300 CFI's. That's a small airline, that would probably have a union, if you ask me.

 

[AviatrixMorgan]

One of my buddies interviewd to be an instructor here in DAB and he said it kicked his ass...basically they asked some off the wall questions that didn't make any sense. You have a leg up on others if you did your training with ERAU. Otherwise...its tough. Good luck.

 

[Steveair]

Leg Up??? 135K in the hole is no leg up.

 

[The Natural]

Hilarious!!

http://ihateerauprescott.blogspot.com/


I always wondered why some airline pilots cringed when I said I wanted to go to "Embry Riddle" when I was like 10.

EDIT: Work is work though

Just reading the complaints of this site made me cringe. Its all true. Especially the girl to guy ratio. I graduated there 5 years ago, I told my friends that not only will I not visit them in Prescott, I'm not even going to Fly over the M*FKER!

It is a good place to come from, I have a few good friends and great connections.

 

[AviatrixMorgan]

Just reading the complaints of this site made me cringe. Its all true. Especially the girl to guy ratio. I graduated there 5 years ago, I told my friends that not only will I not visit them in Prescott, I'm not even going to Fly over the M*FKER!

It is a good place to come from, I have a few good friends and great connections.

Have you read the DAB one? Thats the original!

 

[The Natural]

Erau

Have you read the DAB one? Thats the original!

I'll check it out!

 

[KeroseneDream]

Minus the retirement, about 250 und CFI's...

still no union, no upgrade classes, no 135K tuition

It seems like its time to beat the dead horse until he dies again.

BYU I'm sure you already had the interview and I hope it went well. ERAU-PRC is filled with great people and as long as you stick your neck out you can make pretty good money, build quality time and create some great connections.

Prescott is often a tough town to get used to for those from larger cities, but with happy hours and from 3pm-2am between 12+bars all withing walking distance of each other you can have a good time. Don't look at the university to supply the females, but there are quite a few locals (ofcourse you do have to sift through the hippies and cowpokes to find them).

I instructed there for 2 years. Part time for the first and full time the second. I'm a lazy bast*rd and still managed to leave with 1300/550 and a W2 showing 14k for the first six months plus 3.5k in vacation payout. Full (Cheap!) Health, Dental, Vision, FAA Medical Coverage. 401k with great matching/bonus. Paid Holidays, Paid Snow Days, 2 weeks paid vacation to start + a 3rd week paid when they close between Christmas and New Years.

Look positively at the upgrade classes. Free/Paid flight time to go up with someone who knows what they're doing and get some pointers to hit the ground running with the confidence in yourself that you are a safe and effective instructor.


Steveair:

I've been to Grand Forks and seen their facilities, some nice stuff, but since the erau blog was posted I have to post this as well. http://www.und-fraud.com