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Hmmm...There must be a catch. Why wouldn't they hire one of their own? Seems fishy that they pay their regular instructors rather crappily (relatively), and yet are hiring from the street for this cushy salaried instructor position. Anyone know the scoop?

I guess I'm just getting pessimistic. Maybe I'll send 'em a resume anyways.
 
I was told that they do offer the job to their own people and that they have a hard time getting them because it requires a minimum one year contract after training, and involves no multi-time, and very little complex time. Supposedly the Pro-course grads with 200+ hours of dual don't want to commit to the contract when they have resumes out all over the place. The college I'm at pays $40,000 per year with full benefits and 4 hours per month of free flight time in any of the aircraft, including Seminoles and Helicopters. There are some good instructing gigs out there.
 
Also, if you read their ad, I believe it's the one that requires 200 Instrument hours, and I read in another job site that 50 hours of that can be waived for simulator...so I think that's pretty unreasonable for a 1000TT type of person, but if that's what they want.

It also said that it can be IFR flight plan...how many people keep track of their hours on an IFR flight plan, to get up to 200 Instrument...not sure about it.

Good luck whoever does qualify.
 
My old roommate was one of these people. She got hired by PSA, but I believe she is back there since she was furloughed. She flew Arrows a lot. I don't know much about it, except that she worked for the KLM contract side. She had to go to Holland and take a checkride, etc.

I'll give her a call and see what the skinny is.

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Also, if you read their ad, I believe it's the one that requires 200 Instrument hours, and I read in another job site that 50 hours of that can be waived for simulator...so I think that's pretty unreasonable for a 1000TT type of person, but if that's what they want.

It also said that it can be IFR flight plan...how many people keep track of their hours on an IFR flight plan, to get up to 200 Instrument...not sure about it.



Good luck whoever does qualify.

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More than half of my time is on an instrument flight plan. I've had to re-teach myself not to be afraid of things that go bump in the sky, as I always fly on an instrument flight plan.

I could count and tell you very easily how many hours I have on an instrument flight plan...;).
 
Same here, I use software that will tell me exactly how many IFR Flight Plan hours I have. I can tell within seconds how many landings I have in each individual tail number I've flown. I love it. KLM requires the 200 hours of IFR Plan time for instructors, proves you can fly in the system without getting in trouble, that's why Pan Am asks for it. They seem to have a hard time keeping people in the position, as they have been interviewing every Friday for the last year and a half.
 
Do you use logbook pro? I've bought it but haven't put all my flights in there...that's a very tedious process...gonna have to schedule days off to get that done.

MTSU...do you have that many instrument students already? I really need to find a different flight school.
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Just out of curiosity, where are you hours wise now???

I guess if I added all mine up it would be close, but it would take me a while to go through all those entries.
 
I use a shareware program called ForPilots Logbook. It took me a week, working between flights, to input all of my time. Now I just keep up with it daily.
 
I'm right around 600 TT. I had a pretty slow month in November, but this month is getting alot better. I have a guy that just came in and basically wanted to schedule every day between now whenever I wanted to send him for his checkride (another instructor dropped the ball on him last summer before he went away for college). He's got 60 hours, and still has had no checkride. I already scheduled the ride....we'll have him done by the 3rd...
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I have another guy that wants to get his PPL, and he'd schedule 8 days per week if I let him....I told him we'd stick with 5 for now...
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Instrument guys? Not many....2, with another one beginning as soon as he takes his PP checkride an a few weeks. We just don't know if we'll be training in the flight school's plane, or his own that he's considering...
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All my IFR time was while I was working on my commercial and building time!!! Once I got my instrument ticket, it was IFR everywhere! Need to fly to another airport 20 miles away? FILE! Flying up to Norfolk for a quick lunch? FILE! Gotta do 3 take offs and landings for currency? FILE, and do touch and go's in between approaches...lol.

If I'm flying, and there's no student in the airplane, I'm filing!
 
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Flying IFR is so much easier. I'm the same way. Even if it's a short hop, I'll file IFR. It's a time saver. You don't have to dial in and call the FSS to open your flight plan, then call up approach and try to get flight following and not have to pray that they're not busy enought to pass you off to the next guy. And the best part is that the tower will close your flight plan.
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Even if it's a short hop, I'll file IFR. It's a time saver. You don't have to dial in and call the FSS to open your flight plan, then call up approach and try to get flight following and not have to pray that they're not busy enought to pass you off to the next guy

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Depending on where you fly, it most likely isn't a timesaver. VFR is much faster and convienent. After I did my instrument rating I was filing left and right (it was cool, after all
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), after spending the time VFR in my commercial I will only file if I'm going through some airspace that is a little tricky. Doing a short hop is even more of a time waster as you've gotta climb on up to an IFR altitude (11000+ feet where I'm flying now!) instead of staying low and just shooting direct.

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