Any good ideas?
Here's a good one for those of you involved in the instructional side of the business...
Have done a search but not thrown up much, basically I've recently started at a small flight school as a Helicopter CFI (soon to be CFII). The volume of students isn't proving to be quite as large as I'd hoped, and I was wondering if anyone had any bright ideas for attracting new students to come and train with us - and of course, more selfishly, me.
We have 3 helicopters one of which is an IR trainer, a brand new Flyit sim, a 141 approved groundschool program for the ppl, and IR and Commercial programs submitted to the FAA (so no VA students yet). The location is 12 miles from the centre of a big city, we have pretty much no competition with 3-4 hours drive. We are also able to do Part 91 commercial work.
I know there are some smart people reading this forum who've been in my shoes, and was hoping that they'd feel like sharing whatever they did to make themselves/their school more successful.
Thanks for your help!