mcjohn
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I have chosen option #4 for now:
I figure I've got all this time on my hands so I might as well give it a go down at this part 141 Cessna Pilot Center where I have to wear a full fledged pilot uniform with stripes on the shoulder, name tag and all. They want me to buy the uniform, they want me to come hangout for free to pick up students that drop by for info, and they say they'll help me out with the CFII and MEI if I do a good job (I'll be a subcontracted employee that recieves 1099's). They're also imposing a timeline on me to be done with students from my old flight school. Cost of training at the new place - 110 an hour for the plane if you have a prepay account, 120 other wise. 50 for ground/flight instruction, 45 if using prepay account. Cost of 141 kit $299. So cost of training for my students would be 155 to 170 and hour in a new 172SP with KLN-94 (bendix/king) GPS nav. system and full autopilot.
Could someone give me a little input on how typical or untypical this school may be considering what they're asking of me.
I kind of feel like I might be tooling myself out a little but I won't know until after I work there a couple months. I recieve 20/hour to start after my 10 hour probation period that pays $10/hour.
I have to take a check ride with them tommorow morning (and that I have to pay for.)
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I can't decide:
1. Take $4,000 - $5000 to Atlanta's ATP flight school to get my CFII and MEI and then go where ever.
2. Take $1,800 - $3,400 for training to fly banners over Myrtle Beach for season beginning end of March.
3. Take my wife with me out west to work at a flight school that offers health insurance IF I can convince them to hire me (i.e. - MAPD)
4. Start working at home at a strange little 141 flight school with a small student base that might give me a few more students and possibly return to my hotel job (bellman) part-time to maintain benefits.
I figure I've got all this time on my hands so I might as well give it a go down at this part 141 Cessna Pilot Center where I have to wear a full fledged pilot uniform with stripes on the shoulder, name tag and all. They want me to buy the uniform, they want me to come hangout for free to pick up students that drop by for info, and they say they'll help me out with the CFII and MEI if I do a good job (I'll be a subcontracted employee that recieves 1099's). They're also imposing a timeline on me to be done with students from my old flight school. Cost of training at the new place - 110 an hour for the plane if you have a prepay account, 120 other wise. 50 for ground/flight instruction, 45 if using prepay account. Cost of 141 kit $299. So cost of training for my students would be 155 to 170 and hour in a new 172SP with KLN-94 (bendix/king) GPS nav. system and full autopilot.
Could someone give me a little input on how typical or untypical this school may be considering what they're asking of me.
I kind of feel like I might be tooling myself out a little but I won't know until after I work there a couple months. I recieve 20/hour to start after my 10 hour probation period that pays $10/hour.
I have to take a check ride with them tommorow morning (and that I have to pay for.)
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