IfIHadABoat
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Good place to go to school/work
You can instruct for four years if you come in with your CFI and take the refresher course like U of I Tweak said. Also, as was mentioned earlier, there is an AVI 350 "Practice Teaching" course in which you are given 1 or 2 students and then meet to talk about them with other new instructors twice a week. After that, you can be hired on a part-time basis with probably 1 or 2 students. That can continue on each semester if you do a good job.
We recently lowered the number of students that full-timers get (makes it nice), so there were more part-timers to hold up the load. I think there are around 40 part-timers total.
As for nearest FBO with instructors you are looking at Rantoul (KTIP) about 20 miles to the North.
You cannot rent the airplanes, they are only used for course work and a few special things every now and then.
As far as connections with other airlines, we have a few internship possibilities, I know it's not "flow-through programs" but they have helped some people out. If you work hard to build your time (especially multi) while in school and can instruct all 4 years, you should be in nice shape when you graduate.
It's a good fleet with fairly new airplanes (~7 years old) and great maintenance. It's a very good academic school, with a good reputation for pretty much every major/program of study. Big Ten football and basketball. Those things were really all I needed to want to come here. I would recommend it.
All this being said I haven't experienced a different part 141 school so I don't know how they compare. I have done a fair amount of part 61 instructing and training and I think U of I is quite a bit better in my experiences.
Good Luck, PM if you need more details.
Boat
You can instruct for four years if you come in with your CFI and take the refresher course like U of I Tweak said. Also, as was mentioned earlier, there is an AVI 350 "Practice Teaching" course in which you are given 1 or 2 students and then meet to talk about them with other new instructors twice a week. After that, you can be hired on a part-time basis with probably 1 or 2 students. That can continue on each semester if you do a good job.
We recently lowered the number of students that full-timers get (makes it nice), so there were more part-timers to hold up the load. I think there are around 40 part-timers total.
As for nearest FBO with instructors you are looking at Rantoul (KTIP) about 20 miles to the North.
You cannot rent the airplanes, they are only used for course work and a few special things every now and then.
As far as connections with other airlines, we have a few internship possibilities, I know it's not "flow-through programs" but they have helped some people out. If you work hard to build your time (especially multi) while in school and can instruct all 4 years, you should be in nice shape when you graduate.
It's a good fleet with fairly new airplanes (~7 years old) and great maintenance. It's a very good academic school, with a good reputation for pretty much every major/program of study. Big Ten football and basketball. Those things were really all I needed to want to come here. I would recommend it.
All this being said I haven't experienced a different part 141 school so I don't know how they compare. I have done a fair amount of part 61 instructing and training and I think U of I is quite a bit better in my experiences.
Good Luck, PM if you need more details.
Boat
