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Hy everyone, I am thinking of CFI rating and need an advice Flight schools, from price, timing, good instructors...
Everything around Texas would be great
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Everything around Texas would be great
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Apparently you are asking the same question in different sections of the forum: http://www.pprune.org/north-america/566645-best-school-take-cfi.html#post9093987
It looks like that you're from Italy, if so, then I'd recommend (if you finally decide to get started with flight training, someday) to do your training in Europe and get an EASA license, since a FAA (US) commercial license (CPL) is useless here in Europe. It must be "converted" into an EASA license, which is very time consuming, bureaucratic and expensive. It's basically like doing the training all over again. If you think, well doesn't concern me, I don't want to fly in Europe anyway I want to fly somewhere in the middle or far East, then you are badly mistaken. Since the jobs in the East are for highly experienced pilots only, usually pilots with thousands of hours on Boeing or Airbus, which you're certainly lacking as a rookie (beginner). As a rookie one usually stands the "best" chances of getting a job is in his home country, once you have 3000 or 4000 hours flight time you can start looking for the jobs abroad.
Regarding your initial question (CFI in USA), in general it can be said that over the past years and in the aftermath of 9/11 things have changed a lot in US aviation and it's not as "easy" anymore to work as a CFI as it was in the past, especially as a non US-citizen (foreigner). There are only a few schools left that can issue a work visa (and are willing to deal with the paperwork involved) and usually you must have done your complete training (PPL, IR, CPL, CFI) with this particular flight school in order to get hired by them and only by them, meaning if they don't hire you, you can't go somewhere else!
Not intending to make any advertisement for a particular flight school, nor am I affiliated with it, but the following link might provide some useful information regarding your question.
Helicopter Flight Training | Hillsboro Aero Academy
It looks like that you're from Italy, if so, then I'd recommend (if you finally decide to get started with flight training, someday) to do your training in Europe and get an EASA license, since a FAA (US) commercial license (CPL) is useless here in Europe. It must be "converted" into an EASA license, which is very time consuming, bureaucratic and expensive. It's basically like doing the training all over again. If you think, well doesn't concern me, I don't want to fly in Europe anyway I want to fly somewhere in the middle or far East, then you are badly mistaken. Since the jobs in the East are for highly experienced pilots only, usually pilots with thousands of hours on Boeing or Airbus, which you're certainly lacking as a rookie (beginner). As a rookie one usually stands the "best" chances of getting a job is in his home country, once you have 3000 or 4000 hours flight time you can start looking for the jobs abroad.
Regarding your initial question (CFI in USA), in general it can be said that over the past years and in the aftermath of 9/11 things have changed a lot in US aviation and it's not as "easy" anymore to work as a CFI as it was in the past, especially as a non US-citizen (foreigner). There are only a few schools left that can issue a work visa (and are willing to deal with the paperwork involved) and usually you must have done your complete training (PPL, IR, CPL, CFI) with this particular flight school in order to get hired by them and only by them, meaning if they don't hire you, you can't go somewhere else!
Not intending to make any advertisement for a particular flight school, nor am I affiliated with it, but the following link might provide some useful information regarding your question.
Helicopter Flight Training | Hillsboro Aero Academy
Last edited by Transsonic2000; 29th Aug 2015 at 14:26.
