J-H:
I hope a lot of ideas and suggestions are made now to see if maybe we can improve the flight training skills all over the world.
I will make one more suggestion and that is there must be incentive and incentive is partly driven by money.
Here is my suggestion:::
Give the student the choice of learning to fly at a fixed cost.
The instructor will be paid for every hour the student flys both dual and solo.
There will be no ground briefing cost to the student as the instructor will be motivated to ensure the student learns everything necessary to finish the license in the time frame required by the Government requirement in that country.
So lets crunch a few numbers.
Canada 45 hours minimum as per. Transport Canada.
Cessna 150 average cost ....Dual $ 130.00
...Solo $ 85.00
Now lets have a fixed cost for the license at say $6500.00
We divide $6500.00 by 45 hours we get $144.44 per. flight hour.
We pay the instructor $50.00 per hour the airplane and student flys.
The company now makes $94.44 dollars per hour for the Cessna 150.
Play with this suggestion and compare the average cost paid for students in your country due to excessive hours over the set standards and there is merit in my suggestion.
Of course there will be other costs involved, here in Canada for instance there would be ground school, but hey, you know what? You can buy a correspondance course for about $500.00 approved by T.C.
I will stay out of this discussion for a while and let all you keeners out there wrap your minds around a new concept for making a better living.
For Gods sake don't tell me you can't teach someone in the time laid out by your Government. I bet with incentive you would really do a better job and reach the required time frame.
I am also confident for every reason found that this is not workable, someone will figure out how to make it work.
Cat Driver:
Cat Driver