What are your views on flying clubs that fail to pay ex instructors of theirs?
JWF. Tried to think of a non-liablous, nice way of responding to this but after many uses of the "delete key" could only come up with the fact that, just like in any industry, there are Instructors who are dishonest little !!!!!s and there are Club Owners who are dishonest little !!!!!s.
Then there are good, honest, hard-working, loyal and honourable Instructors and Club Owners who end up falling out big time and accuse each other of being in the category, as well as both making it justifiably very personal and BOTH doing things that with hindsight, neither would have risked, mainly because neither of them have enough money a. to be comfortable b. to be completely honest about whats owed or c. to allow time to sort it out!!!!!!!
This just adds more fuel to the debate and results in more bad feelings and threads such as this
I have a similar problem at the moment which has dragged on a fair while but I will be resolving in the next couple of weeks because I made a personal commitment to do so when I could personally afford to. I did this because we were able to talk sometime after and both put our hands up to being as bad as each other and agree that lifes too short.
It would never happen in the majority of cases if schools charged a reasonable amount and Club Owners and Instructors could make a decent living.
We are all in this because we love the smell of AvGas. Sometimes the fumes cloud our judgement. We all have to eat when we get out of aircraft and go back to grim reality.
As much as it sometimes seems a horrible thought, its money that makes the world (and the propellors) go round and if we all had just enough the industry would not be as rife with Instructors and Club Owners who feel so hard done by each other