.......... now I can see that £15 per hour isn't really all that lousy after all compared to what you guys in florida are getting ! However, I do think it's worth bearing in mind that the people who run all the small independent flying schools over here aren't ripping off their instructors and making huge profits - the people who have owned the three or four clubs I've worked in over the years have been pretty hard-up too. That's why I don't feel I'm getting shafted as the original post suggested. If we put our prices up lots of the students couldn't afford to learn to fly so we'd end up just teaching rich kids whose daddies paid whatever it cost.