Free lance CFI

[jake.durham]

Where are you instructing out of now? I may be able to send some students your way if you need some.

 

[FlySooner9]

Im not instructing anywhere right now. Can't find anyone hiring, or at least hiring a fresh CFI.

 

[freeflyer]

Yes, but...what would your business card say? Where is your airplane? where is your 'office'? - your 'briefing room'? - your flight planning room? - Weather Data?..and the space and room to teach these elements of flying? We need these facilitites to conduct flight training,..so if you are not affiliated with a school, at least you need to be affiliated with an FBO, and that's where/how you get your name around...

At my local field there is an FBO that has several flying club offices. CFI's post their cards on the common bulliten board. I have also been solicited by these freelance instructors while I was at the FBO. I know for a fact that the FSDO is aware of all the cards, and has collected them to contact instructors about various things, but not holding out

 

[Blackhawk]

At my local field there is an FBO that has several flying club offices. CFI's post their cards on the common bulliten board. I have also been solicited by these freelance instructors while I was at the FBO. I know for a fact that the FSDO is aware of all the cards, and has collected them to contact instructors about various things, but not holding out

As pointed out before "holding out" is only one of the 5 elements in defining "common carriage, the other steps being (2) transport of (3) persons or property (4) from place to place (5) for compensation.

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Advertising signs, business cards, websites, FBO referrals are indeed holding out, (AC 120-12A), but you are holding out for flight instruction, not the transportation of people or goods. IAW FAR 119 flight instruction does not fall into the areas covered by that regulation and as such flight schools and CFIs can advertise all day long for their services as long as it remains in the realm of flight training and does not cross the line into the realm of transportation. CFIs must be aware of this when flight schools try to set up "discovery flight" transporting someone to a distant city as this starts to smell like common carriage.​

 

[LOGS]

Made the most money for the least amount of flying freelancing. Recommend making business cards as well as a website. Hoping when I get back to the states in buying a tailwheel and starting a little flightschool on the side. You're not going to build the hours you need though freelancing like you would at a flight school.

=Jason-