Mysteryshopper.
Think your idea for a constructive piece in the AOPA house mag., concerning becoming and working as an FI, is long overdue.
I feel the problem of adequate remuneration for FIs will be with us for some time though.
The dilemma is threefold.
1. Some low hour guys, straight out of training, will always be prepared
to take a job for peanuts just to get on the ladder.
2. Good or bad, retirees who return to the training world, with the best
of intentions, nearly always have the lifeboat of a bit of a pension to
cushion the deficit.
3. Until we no longer have to compete with the tax-loaded price of fuel,
we will always have to suffer the ignominy of being the simplest
device in keeping the overall cost of flying training at a reasonable
level.
Should the Flying Club fuel rebate ever be reintroduced (fat chance
of that) then we might be in a stronger position.
You're right. Young and enthusiastic, retired and experienced, we
should be payed a decent rate. But that's a different thread
altogether.
Rgds, Sleeve.
