Stretch06

Grade 2 Instructor NVFR = $38,800 (before tax)
Working 80-90hrs duty / fortnight and avg 550hrs flying / year.
Renewals and upgrades paid by company.

Wow, wish I was on Fonz121's salary. Fonz is that SE or ME training?

world instrucor

Do you live with parents? Do you eat? does parents still pay your bills? DO you date? Are you celibate? Do you own a car? Can you sleep in back of car? Can you eat at local soup kitchen missions ? Do you have a sugar momma ? then you can expect to earn enough to qualify for all government programs

Skydiveandy

Full Time

Retainer of just over $40K + a reasonable hourly rate..

Grade 1 Multi IFR

works out to around $50K+ depending on the hours..

Hard Work, loads of politics, wouldn't give it up though..

pois0n

$50k cleaning toilets where?!

I was making $20k doing that!

M14_P

I personally charge $40/flying hour GST inc. Only doing it part time (busy with other commitments). I have 3 PPL's on the go at the moment. Just enough to keep out of trouble - these fellas are self funding students too.
If you are after a salary then clearly this won't work for you (contract flying) but it sure does work for me.

A37575

The so called constant supervision is a farce. There are countless stories of new instructors hanging on to students for many hours with no check flights conducted by the CFI to ensure the student's progress is being closely monitored. How many times do flying school chief flying instructors actually fly with their junior instructors to check their instructional skills? Who pays for the aircraft time? Too much hassle? Too right.

My understanding of the reason for the formation of the CASA Flight Standards Testing group was that the standards of new instructors was so poor that CASA intervention was warranted. So much for the constant supervision of grade 3 instructors by their own CFI's

Dangnammit

As long as you can pay your bills and lend you knowledge to others while filling up the log book. That's my short term goal when I finish my fir.

Pay wise, if it's not enough, then other work as well will have to do.

Will be hard after coming from civil works with good money.

Sacrifice now for the future.....

havick

$88/hr + super for single engine piston.. doing average at least 5 hours a day.. minimum 2 hour callout, ie you turn up and flights are cancelled due wx..

more money for single engine turbine, and lots more for multi turbine IFR..

keeps me busy doing as a nice little extra earner on the side of my normal flying gig..

havick

WannabeQF..

That's pretty typical casual rates for helicopter instructing..

Most guys that instruct casual tend to be higher hour guys that do it for something on the side from their fulltime gig

senshi

I know of a company on the Goldy who pays GR1's $65K (more if they teach ME IFR). $10 less for each grade of instructor.

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M14_P

Looking at what some people here are earning instructing, there is hope for those wanting fulltime work yet! Some impressive numbers if you ask me. I don't know of anyone earning more than NZ$40K / year instructing..