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hobbit1983 10th Aug 2016 17:39

Strange way of putting it. Still, if that's PPL instructing it's approximately 59% more than the last school I was at.

BigEndBob 10th Aug 2016 19:27

Helicopter instructor at our old school 1990 would get £40 hour.
We fixed wing £8.
Knew I was in the wrong side of Aviation.

I'm the CFI of my school.
I pay myself less than minimum wage and we just keep afloat.
When I pay an odd part timer they get more than me per hour.

I don't know how other schools survive and I'm busy this last 7 years..

Danny boy 11th Aug 2016 21:07

I find in aviation there are people who have done quite well in general business etc, decide to come into aviation for perhaps fun or something, abandon all their business skills and keep financially propping up a hopeless situation...

They must like the kudos of owning a flying school or a FBO, most of my competitors must be losing money...

I don't do too bad out of flight training generally, but it has its moments...in the old days we had a high volume of students but the instruction was not always the best in the difficult time constraints, now we have high quality (instruction), but don't have the volume of students...not sure which one is best..

Still will be flying again tomorrow so not all bad..


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