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Old 12th Sep 2009, 02:09
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Chuck Ellsworth
 
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Yes the rate a school would need to charge would be higher.

However the time the students take to get what ever license, rating they are training for would be less.

I don't know what you people make down on the other side of the planet but in Canada the instructors make around $25.00 an hour on the average.

It also takes about double the minimum time for PPL's to get their license so if the hourly wage was raised to say $100. 00 per hour the instructor could actually live off the money they made and the student would get far better training.

The industry would soon sort out who the good instructors are by their product.

When I was doing type ratings on the PBY I was charging 250 Euro per flight hour and was never out of work, so it can be done.

I have been retired for almost four years and am thinking of doing some more instruction...maybe on the new Husky Amphibian I am looking after for a friend of mine.
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