Well based on $15 per flying hour ( a good industry average for the dununda flying instructor) I am on track to earn somewhere between 8 and 10 thousand kiwi dollars gross this year. About 6 thousand kiwi in the hand, or to put it in perspective around 2 thousand English pounds. I'm a relatively senior instructor, responsible for course design and delivery for a large group of CPL students at one of the more prestigious flying schools in NZ. Truth is, Robbo, you can not make enough money to live on an instructor's wage in this country. end of story. 40,000 Aussie dollars is a pipe dream, I'd like to meet a single instructor earning that sort of cash (unless they own the flying school).