Most instructor positions are pay as you fly £15-£20 per hour, no retainer. Expect to do 500ish hours per year skewed towards the summer months. I will let you do the math (as our cousins say).
Few positions are salaried.
Unless you live close to the airfield with your mum and borrow her car I wouldn't bank on any loan repayments. In the first year you may earn enough to pay back the instructor rating but thats not why we do it. Its also the reason you don't see instructors hanging around for long. First whiff of a £15,000 first officer job and most people will jump.
People who instruct for more than a year generally have another source of income.
Last edited by 18greens; 7th December 2005 at 15:35.