Originally Posted by
bakerin
So then it is possible that I have a successful career instructing in the United States with an FAA class 3 medical?
There may be a few instructors in USA that made a sucessful career of it. I would suspect the number is quite small. For many the CFI rating is just a stepping stone on the way to an airline job. I never depended on my flying to make any money. I had an engineering career and flew for fun.
I do sometimes see an advert for a local part 141 school looking for instructors but they are rare. Typically these flight schools use their own graduates to teach the next batch of students.
As for instructing in business jets- sure if you have a few thousand hours turbine time you may find a job as a sim instructor. How do you plan to get the experience needed?
I'm not the right person to tell you how to make money from flying. Maybe someone who actually did that will step in and paint a more rosy picture.