hi,
quote from whirlybird
Instructing is a fun job, but quite often a lousy way to make a living
that is so true, realistically if you are really busy you aint going to do more than 500 hours a year or so, that equates to £17500-£22500, and boy you have to work real hard to do that, as well as giving up most of your weekends etc.
weather is bad - no pay, you are off ill - no pay
2 years in a row I got £500 for the whole of december, and you still end up going every day and off course on those bad wx days you get to practice the old flight instructor martial art of "extreme tea drinking"
having said that you do build loads of hours and slowly become more useful/employable. but these days you also have the pressure to do the IR, or you will get left behind, when I started hardly anybody was doing self funded IR's
it aint getting any easier to make it these days !
regards
CF