CFI Shortage....

mf_eli92 said:
As long as I get my hours. The problem with the conversion process in Malaysia right now is if you have below 1500 hours, the department of civil aviation will want you to sit through all the EASA ground classes and papers plus some flights in a multi as they'll convert the license to a frozen atpl. But converting with 1500 and above they'll straight away consider to convert the license to ATPL; after taking the atpl test of course.
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Look for a course that offers you an F1 visa with work authorization, you'll get 1500 hours in a year and a half...


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I would love to get back into flight training to get my PPL, but at $200 an hour (135 for a Skyhawk, 65 for an instructor) I just can't afford it. :-( Ok, no flying for me. But what I can't wrap my head around is the fact that if a shortage of instructors is driving prices up ,that's just going to create more of a shortage. I have a hard time believing that people can afford these prices.
 
Flying Saluki said:
I would love to get back into flight training to get my PPL, but at $200 an hour (135 for a Skyhawk, 65 for an instructor) I just can't afford it. :-( Ok, no flying for me. But what I can't wrap my head around is the fact that if a shortage of instructors is driving prices up ,that's just going to create more of a shortage. I have a hard time believing that people can afford these prices.
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I work four jobs to be able to afford to learn to fly. It sucks!
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
I work four jobs to be able to afford to learn to fly. It sucks!
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Well, I was commenting more on the economic response to a shortage of flight instructors. Shortage of supply>price goes up>demand falls off>further shortage of supply>price goes up more? I guess demand isn't falling off with the price increase, at least not yet. Good for instructors, bad for students pilots I suppose. Just wondering at what point the shortage leads to a price increase where demand falls off.
 
I think flight instruction costs will be fairly inelastic. Every operation I've interacted with is just making enough to stay in business, so if prices drop any further, they will just go out of business, thus correcting the supply side of the equation.
 
Flying Saluki said:
Well, I was commenting more on the economic response to a shortage of flight instructors. Shortage of supply>price goes up>demand falls off>further shortage of supply>price goes up more? I guess demand isn't falling off with the price increase, at least not yet. Good for instructors, bad for students pilots I suppose. Just wondering at what point the shortage leads to a price increase where demand falls off.
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The costs don't change very much - fuel, insurance, airport rent and maintenance determine what the plane will cost, there isn't much margin there to begin with to discount. Many/most FBOs make a good chunk of their profit from the maintenance operation, then instruction (salary is the only expense, school usually keeps a good share of that). Airplanes are often on a leaseback agreement, so the aircraft owners and not the flight school tend to bear the brunt of a downturn.
 
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