CFIs Needed

I recieved seven that I handed in yesterday and one more today. We'll need 12 instructors for the first wave of Shanghai students comming in the next couple months (December-January, all depens on TSA). Sierra trained instructors get first shot but we already took just about everyone who is ready so you guys are the majority of the pool. If you don't get called this time around, we'll be hiring another 6 instructors per month until we get about 50. If we get enough capacity to handle all the sudents Air China wants to send us, we'll need over 200 instructors. If you don't get a call in the next few weeks let me know and i'll make some inquiries, and make sure your resume didn't get tossed into a pile and forgotten.
 
flyguy said:
I recieved seven that I handed in yesterday and one more today. We'll need 12 instructors for the first wave of Shanghai students comming in the next couple months (December-January, all depens on TSA). Sierra trained instructors get first shot but we already took just about everyone who is ready so you guys are the majority of the pool. If you don't get called this time around, we'll be hiring another 6 instructors per month until we get about 50. If we get enough capacity to handle all the sudents Air China wants to send us, we'll need over 200 instructors. If you don't get a call in the next few weeks let me know and i'll make some inquiries, and make sure your resume didn't get tossed into a pile and forgotten.
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Here's to hoping!
 
listen to CAVOK!

Spartan School did this same thing and I can't tell you how many problems it caused. Check it out before you jump in - some headaches are not worth it.

Isn;t there a thread on all of the things the international student pilots did which placed the training CFI's in joepardy of loosing their certs? You would not believe the stories!
 
moxiepilot said:
listen to CAVOK!
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Did you read Cavok's post? According to Cavok it is a good deal, it will just be a challenge.

Care to elaborate on what was causing the CFIs to potentially lose their certs?

BTW Sierra has been doing international airline contracts for over 40 years. We just haven't ever done anything on this magnitude.
 
When I was instructing a few guys had some problems with their students. I just took a lot of time with mine and made sure they had a firm grasp on what they needed to do when they were going solo.
One example when I was the "solo monitor" for the day:
I got a call from Flight Service saying that Oklahoma City Approach was on the phone and they were in radio contact with a 152 circling over Tinker AFB (not good). From the broken english they thought he was lost but were confident they could vector him to the airport he was looking for (which happened to be an uncontrolled field 35 miles EAST of there!!). They wanted to know what I wanted them to do. After they got him on the ground we went to pick him up. Not really any harm done, other than the conference the Chief and I had to have with his instrutor.
It was just dis-heartening to call for a WX brief the next morning and when I gave the briefer my name, he said "oh, we have you listed for involvement in a deviation yesterday...lost chinese student over Tinker...don't worry sir, it isn't the first time."
Luckily I wasn't his instructor :).
The next month another student actually LANDED at Tinker without a clearance because he was lost. The Air Force detained him for a day and a half, and took the airplane for three days. His instructor got in trouble.

Like I said, it will be a huge challenge from an instructing standpoint. But if the aircraft are safe, cirriculum paced appropriately, and the school and instructors approach the contract with the proper attitude it will be a good experience for all.
If the contracts are structured the same, there will be a time frame for each class of students. This will lend itself easily to trying to rush them through...DON'T! Progress the your students as quickly as they can learn it (which is SLOW), and you shouldn't have any problem. The Asian aviation market is exploding and they need the pilots. Good luck!

Oh..also, for those of you who get the opportunity to instruct these "ducks out of water" :) Choose their solo XC's wisely. I imagine sending them out and about in the airspace in that part of the world could cause some damage if they aren't ready for it. Not much airspace to worry about in Oklahoma, but still they managed to find ways to get in trouble :).
 
flyguy said:
Did you read Cavok's post? According to Cavok it is a good deal, it will just be a challenge.

Care to elaborate on what was causing the CFIs to potentially lose their certs?

BTW Sierra has been doing international airline contracts for over 40 years. We just haven't ever done anything on this magnitude.
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Well, I guess I focused on the bulleted points numbered 1 through 5 which point out the difficulties of training international folks. Remember, the East is not the west; much of what CAVOK says is true - they will say yes, sir even if they have nno freaking idea what youre talking about. They seemed to do whatever they want to without regard to understanding how their choices affect others (see the circling over tinker and other one landing there). These are bad things.

I'm sure Sierra is great with international contracts. Are they mostly European contracts? Does Sierra have any experience with lets say Korea, Japan or India? If you do, great. Disregard any caution I might lay out there.

However, I'd suggest doing a search with the key words "Spartan" & "Chinese"
 
I sent you a resume too.

I could definatley see there being a big language barrier problem, considering that chinese isn't even remotely related to english. Thats got to be tough for the chinese students to learn english and use it to learn all of this flyin' stuff.
 
Wow, sounds like a good job. I'm very interested in it for the future. How will the students be towards female instructors? I have heard that many chinese students have a hard time taking instruction from a female instructor due to thier culture. How has that worked with other schools that have done this type of program?
 
For those who will be available in the future, wait until you are ready to start before you apply, because otherwise your resume might just get thrown into a pile and forgotten. I'll walk in your resume when you are ready and it'll be fresh in the asst chief's mind.

For those that have already sent in resumes, I was told to tell you to expect a call sometime in mid December as that is when we will begin hiring for the next wave of students. There are a total of ten that have applied from JC, a handfull of others that other instructors recommended, and there will probably be a hanfull of Sierra grads (including myself) in that pool, so maybe half of you will at least be interviewed that round. The rest will have a very good shot at the next round two months later.

We have one female instructor already so obviously they don't have any isues hiring them. If you will be living on campus we just need to make sure your restroom mate is also female. Currently our one female instructor gets a restroom to herself, so there's a room saved for the next gal we hire. If the Chineese have a problem they will just have to live with it. We are an equal opportunity employer.
 
got an email on this today

My name is Carlos M. Lemesch. I'm the _____ for Sierra Academy of Aeronautics, Castle Airport located in Atwater, CA.

We are going to be conducting interviews and tests for the position of Flight/Ground Instructor for airline contract training between January 4 th and January 6th.

We are looking to hire around 12 flight instructors and 5 ground instructors. The contract is for a period of 10 month once you become a full time flight instructor.

The salary is $18/hr (flight instructor) and $15/hr (Ground Instructors). You are going to have around 100-120 hours (flight Instructors) and 80-100 hours (ground Instructors) of productivity per month.

A few of the benefits that are offered in this location are the free housing (saving you around $400-$500/month of rent), and free meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner saving you around $300/month of groceries).

You are going to have an entrance test: passing score of 85% is required to advance to the next stage. 50 points of the test are taken from the ATP written test and the other 50 points are based on general knowledge (Aerodynamics, Weather, FARs, PTSs, etc.)
After the test you can expect an interview.

If everything goes well you'll be called for an orientation and a flight exam.

If you pass all the phases successfully you will become part of the team for the airline contract training.

If you are interested please reply to one of the following e.mails.:


In the subject line please write your full name and add "Contract Training." And we will send you back and interview date and time. Please also attach your most current Resume.

Housing and meals will be provided for up to 2 nights for the interview and test.

Sincerely,
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I dunno if I can make it. Short notice for getting the time off and making my way.
 
Got the same e-mail. I could make it happen but I don't think it's really worth it. I have not studied at all for the ATP written and the chances of making it happen between now and the 4th is small.

Anybody going?
 
Wow, he told me he was going to send out an emil today, but I didn't know he was expecting you guys to fly yourselves out here on such short notice. i was thinking more along the lines of a phone interview as the first stage of the hiring process. But do your best I guess. If you are unable to make it out this time, we will be needing more instructors in a couple months so maybe you could email Carlos and arrange for an interview at a later time for a later program.

BTW he is an extreemely busy man, so don't take it personally if he dosn't get back to you right away.

Good Luck everyone.
 
flyguy said:
i was thinking more along the lines of a phone interview as the first stage of the hiring process.
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this is what I was thinking also, it's like he doesn't realize that we're all over the country and have to airline in. personally wed-tr-fri schedules are difficult for me to get off work anyway, and my ****ty job doesn't give me enough vacation to burn on something like this.
Anyway, it's a lot of money to spend on a gamble, I'm pretty rusty and couldn't get enough studying in anyway.
 
Got the same email today. I appreciate the walk-in, fly guy, but I'm pretty settled in with this job I got going in SoCal.... thanks anyway and good luck to those who go for the interview.
 
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