PA44Jockey
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Just curious to hear about how the schools such as Pheonix East, DCA, Pan Am, Sierra etc will survive with this. We already have too many pilots for the current demand in flying. Things will probably only even out when Age 65 hits. Yes there will be a demand then, but there are thousands of qualified pilots on the street right now.
When the economy was good and the flight schools such as Delta Connection Academy had students, as soon as I hit 800 hours of dual given instruction, I was forced to quit to make room for another CFI.
Now there are hardly any students willing to pay $100,000.00 for flight training. The only thing luring them in is the job prospect at 300 hours right now. What is going to happen when they have to build another 1200 hours to get hired somewhere. Maybe a few hours will be taken up while they obtain their ATP, but you get were I am going?
I know the mins use to be around 1500 hours about 10 years ago to get hired somewhere, but before Sept. 11 there were a ton of people that wanted to learn to fly in the ballpark of 32,000.00 for training. Flight schools are going to have to come back down to reality with cost or I think many will fold.
When the economy was good and the flight schools such as Delta Connection Academy had students, as soon as I hit 800 hours of dual given instruction, I was forced to quit to make room for another CFI.
Now there are hardly any students willing to pay $100,000.00 for flight training. The only thing luring them in is the job prospect at 300 hours right now. What is going to happen when they have to build another 1200 hours to get hired somewhere. Maybe a few hours will be taken up while they obtain their ATP, but you get were I am going?
I know the mins use to be around 1500 hours about 10 years ago to get hired somewhere, but before Sept. 11 there were a ton of people that wanted to learn to fly in the ballpark of 32,000.00 for training. Flight schools are going to have to come back down to reality with cost or I think many will fold.