Helicopter Flight Instructor Pay

[ATPMBA]

What is the average pay for a part-time flight instructor per hour for instructuing PPL students in the UK (R22, S300c) ?

[windowseatplease]

£40-£50 per flight hour.

[Up & Away]

freelance Helicopter Instructors could get £40 per hour here in the UK in 1985!!

[Phil77]

I used to make $20 per hour (flight and ground instruction) here in the north east US. But worked the office when not flying and got $1,000 base pay a month - equated to a mere $7/hour!

[dragman]

New Zealand instructors; loaded. Start on as low as $25,000 salary.

[P1DRIVER]

Hi
Instructors working in the Middle East are on £60000+ with the current exchange rate.
Onwards and upwards

[HelikoPeter]

Norway pays about 50$ per hour instructing R22 and R44

[Disguise Delimit]

In Oz I'm getting $130,000 but I'm not a newbie Grade 2 -I'm an old Grade 1.

[Disguise Delimit]

That's Oz dollars unfortunately, the South Pacific Peso.

[Heliringer]

DD,

That is top dollar for an instructor, in fact any pilot in Australia.

I guess you are teaching NVGs etc on the Sunshine Coast.

Nice one anyway, something for us all to aspire too.

Ringer

[fluffy5]

Yep, it is terrible pay. In the uk market the pay has not changed for the last 10 to 15 years, 40 to 50 pounds an hour. some get a retainer. but the company will see a way in making a ceiling for you, average monthly pay in the summer for a free lance will any where between 2000-3000 quid. yet in the winter periods can go down to 1000 quid a month. Corporate has gone tits up in the uk, so alot of pilots will not be able to supplement there income doing charter.
I'm even in a more awfull position, just about to get a wage increase which will put me more 75,000 sterling a year, TAX FREE. Oh hang on, better say it again for any people working in the UK "TAX FREE"
Feel tired, overworked, fatigued that I have to get up from my large villa, travel to work my 5 minute drive, do the awfull part of flying for a few hours, done my 6 hours duty if I'm on afternoon's, S.E vfr training. Finish then have the most terrible time round the golf course, cold beer and then back home for a swim in the pool.

If only I could go back to free lance instruction back in the UK, of being stiffed by a few cowboy companies and then by the tax man.
Life can be so cruel.

[Jonwil]

Fluffy,

your the man!

[Tarman]

Fluffy wrote:
I'm even in a more awfull position, just about to get a wage increase which will put me more 75,000 sterling a year, TAX FREE. Oh hang on, better say it again for any people working in the UK "TAX FREE"

Yawn

[P1DRIVER]

Hi F5

Think youre wrong there!!!?? Its more like £71556 TAX FREE. But don,t forget the Extra months pay for every 12 months so its £77519

[fluffy5]

Thank you very much P1driver, forgot about the extra after every 12 months, it really cuts deeply to the bone.

[WylieCoyote]

Fluff,

I think it's time you started a thread ' I have a very big handle and I know how to wind it'.

[dragman]

5 minute drive to work? Lazy b@$t@rd! Haven't you got a bike?

[WylieCoyote]

Of course Fluffy has a bike, she's Thai... Ping ping or something or other and her mate Ting tong, why do you think he has to drive to work!

[Leftpedal]

In Seff Effrika you get 350 - 400 Rand per hour. That's about Twenty - twenty three pounds. Or 3 and a half - 4 cases of beer.....

[jonseagull]

How much tax do you have to pay on 3 1/2 - 4 cases of beer?