So you are a shareholder, a partner, an owner, an employer, an employee with guaranteed employment prospects, an apprentice and the business provides its services with no profit and a commitment to guarantee employment for everybody who subscribes?
If 5 people subscribe and each becomes an instructor under the guaranteed employment scenario and in turn needs 5 more students to become guaranteed instructors, then by the time the 10th course has gone through you have employed (5x5 to the power 10) people. That is you now have (48,828,125) nearly 49 million instructors/employees on your books with a wage bill of (assuming a paltry £5000 pa salary) £240 billion! Those airlines better be mopping up your throughput quickly!
Pyramid schemes, don't you just love them!
No I cannot see how that could be anything other than a perfect model. Go for it!
On the 04th of June you wrote;
Have just completed my Flight instructor course and made the fatal and incorrect analysis that in addition to the pre flight requisites for the commencement of the course that upon completion a job vacancy (even part time) with that training provider would be on the cards.
It's a question of "GOOD WILL". RIGHT?
If your paying for work based training you expect work right?
WRONG WRONG WRONG.
BE WARNED !!!!
Common sense does not apply !!!!
The training is there but ensure that the provider is WILLING TO OFFER YOU EMPLOYMENT UPON COMPLETION. (THERE ARE SOME OUT THERE!)
Otherwise you end up with a very expensive printed piece of paper from the CAA. To the tune of TEN GRAND!
Unfortunately, words like "INTEGRITY" do not seam to mean anything to some organisations.
It is a great shame that within an industry of such passionate individuals that good will is meaningless and a solid legal contract is your only form of protection from wasting your time and money on a course with absolutely no prospect of a job at the end of it.
Catch 22 comes to mind, without that first opportunity to gain experience no employer is interested.
It seams as though there should be some legislation that if an individual is willing to pay the best part of Ten grand to complete the FI training the very least that Flight Training organization could do is allow that individual the opportunity to gain some valuable experience upon completion as an instructor.
If anyone knows of any vacancies as an instructor, for an extremely disheartened individual of the aviation industry, please contact me.
Has the "penny dropped" yet?