Cirrus SR-22

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Of course it is! Right now I'm trying to figure out how to charge it off to a client.
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[/ QUOTE ]John, I know a few Cirrus Instructors who travel to their clients. I'm pretty sure that insurance companies require recurrent training with a "qualified" instructor. It might be worth your while to look into the Cirrus pilot group or other ways of marketing your status.

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My current CFI has a friend that bought a SR22 and flight intructs in it and is really busy. People come to see him and he also meets up with pilots at their base too.
 
I think I should take you up on your offer of "no timebuilders" when I graduate college. I want to get into the business side of anything, and fly my own stuff to keep in interesting.

I know the CFI's in Duluth get a salary of $200 a day, so I suppose that isn't up your alley, but up plenty of starving CFI's!!
 
$200/day? Is that all? For real?

Wow there must be more hungry CFIs out there than I thought.

Keep in touch on the other thing Luc.
 
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$200/day? Is that all? For real?

Wow there must be more hungry CFIs out there than I thought.

Keep in touch on the other thing Luc.

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I will keep in touch about the other thing, but the requirements for this $200 a day is only 500 tt and CFII. I would say that is a pretty decent wage, especially since I know the new CFI's here at UND get paid a max $64 a day. Now there is a wage I want to earn the rest of my life! But all joking aside, you do have to start somewhere.
 
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Funny, I would consider $200 a day pretty damn good CFI pay. Sad, I guess.
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I'm with you....I'll take that any day!!
 
My employer owns an SR20. Our club uses it from time to time, but the insurance mins are pretty high. I'm currently the only CFI checked out in the plane. So lately I've been spending a fair amount of time with it. I love the "yoke". I wish Cessna and Piper would put them in their planes. Spent some time in the 22 and I have to say that extra 110 hp makes a huge difference. Overall an easy plane to fly, except the landing profile, don't screw that one up or you might break the tail!!
 
No kidding. I'd love to get $200/day. Right now I make about $120 IF I can work an extra four hours of overtime.
 
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$200/day? Is that all? For real?

Wow there must be more hungry CFIs out there than I thought.

Keep in touch on the other thing Luc.

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Ummm . . . unless my math is messed up, $200/day is great pay for a CFI. Assuming you could work 5 days/week (and I don't know if you could), that would be $52K/year ($200 X 261). That's pretty damn good for Duluth, MN.

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$200/day? Is that all? For real?

Wow there must be more hungry CFIs out there than I thought.

Keep in touch on the other thing Luc.

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Ummm . . . unless my math is messed up, $200/day is great pay for a CFI. Assuming you could work 5 days/week (and I don't know if you could), that would be $52K/year ($200 X 261). That's pretty damn good for Duluth, MN.

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That's pretty damn good for anyplace!

Sorry, I was born and raised in the hood...
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It's very rare to get a 5 day a week contract. You would have to be selling more than one Cirrus a week per CFI.
 
Well, Cirrus claims to have sold 130 planes between January 1 and March 11, 2004, and there appear to be 12 instructors at UND's Cirrus factory training program in Duluth (I'm not sure whether Cirrus also has its own instructors). So those numbers look pretty rosy. I'd be all over that job posting except I don't have my Comm., I don't have my CFI, and I don't have 500 TT, yet. So minor problems there.
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12 instructors at Duluth. 4 at Air Orlando. let's say 2 Factory Instructors.

that's 18.

11 weeks * 1.4 planes per week (3 days of CFI) * 18 CFIs = 277.2 aircraft.

So about half of them might be working a full week. This is assuming that all 130 were sold in the US as well. Foreign countries may have different training requirements.

Also, let's not count sales but deliveries.

Anyway - I am not interested in $200/day. I've turned plenty of offers like that down already.
 
It will happen if you hold your standards. Be serious about your work and do it right, on time, and up to professional standards.

$200/day is not a lot in the business world. That's not even $30/hr for a CFI.
 
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$200/day is not a lot in the business world.

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Nope, it's not.

<-- misses that $74/hr AOL paycheck.
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Ok, I'm depressed now.
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It will happen if you hold your standards. Be serious about your work and do it right, on time, and up to professional standards.

$200/day is not a lot in the business world. That's not even $30/hr for a CFI.

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Yeah, well, $200 a day is a jackpot to most CFI's.

This isn't the business world, and I bet theres only a handful of regular (non-specialty) CFI's in the country that make a flat rate of $200/day and do it regularly.

You make it sound like a cakewalk to make that as a CFI John, but I can tell the rest of you that its not. Why? Because if you demand that much, you're going to be looking for another job. You will have to be an extremely above-average, and very experienced CFI to get most FBO's/flight schools to pay you what you're worth, and even then...good luck.
 
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