Originally Posted by
flight beyond sight
Approx £400-£450 per day depending on the variants
That's way too high!!
Most ATO/DTO's pay 50GBP per flight hour for freelancers. Max 4 flight hours a day, I would say 200-300GBP a day is the maximum.
A very experienced FI might be able to get a higher hourly rate but 450/day, that's rare, very rare.
And that's one of the 2 reasons the industry has a shortage:
- pay for an FI is too low
- shortage in offshore/hames/police makes tnew pilots go for jobs like that instead of first become a FI
years ago pilots didn't get hired unless they had 1000hrs which made most pilots go for an FI job, get some hours/experience and move on. Now people straight out of a CPL+IR get hired so they skip the FI step leaving the industry with a shortage.