Graduating in May, need advice on CFI training

Hey Jason... if you decide to goto ATP, let me know.. we can coordinate.. I'm planning on doing it in Vegas (probably) sometime the first half of this year!
 
iwareboy said:
Hey Jason... if you decide to goto ATP, let me know.. we can coordinate.. I'm planning on doing it in Vegas (probably) sometime the first half of this year!
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It's something I am considering, although I never did get to try the laid back Part 61 environment...

When I move back to SoCal, Karl Strauss lunch and beer is on me :D
 
Just go to an FBO. Here's the figures for me:

Some books: about $50

About 8 hours flight time including free checkride (FAA): $1100-1200

Total: Max $1250 (not counting car gas since the airport was about 45 mins. away.)

Its also a really good idea to fly from the right seat when doing Commercial training, and maybe vocalize the maneuvers also if you can. If I did that, I could have probably done the CFI for a few hundred. :nana2:
 
Aeroman said:
Just go to an FBO. Here's the figures for me:

Some books: about $50

About 8 hours flight time including free checkride (FAA): $1100-1200

Total: Max $1250 (not counting car gas since the airport was about 45 mins. away.)

Its also a really good idea to fly from the right seat when doing Commercial training, and maybe vocalize the maneuvers also if you can. If I did that, I could have probably done the CFI for a few hundred. :nana2:
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How'd you get a free checkride?
 
JaceTheAce said:
My goal is to become a corporate pilot. I am not leaving the airlines out as a possibility, but I am aiming towards the corporate route. Flying a King Air or Citation would be awesome! :nana2:
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You need to get to the corporate forum! That place is dead. I feel like I'm talking to myself most of the time!

Oh yeah, you wanna fly a Falcon...nothing better!
 
SteveC said:
He went to the FAA rather than a DPE.
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yes, the FAA is free...but you know that expression that nothing is REALLY free...well it applies here. Most FSDO districts wont let you goto a DPE, I know portland ME and orlando FL wouldn't let me.

I would have much prefered spending money for a DPE than spending all that time in a back office of a FSDO, that place was like "The Office" crossed with the pentagon.

Oh and in case you were wondering, I spent about $3k for my CFI, which was a 500 to 1k more than it should have been but the FSDO was 1.5hours away (and I had to made 3 trips) plus the arrow was expensive($150hr). I think I spent 10 hours in the arrow for test prep before I began the test process, and it was a process (though i never failed), the rest was ground...alot of ground.
 
When you do the CFI with the FSDO do you always have to go to the FSDO? I guess it would make sense that they wouldn't come to you...
 
SteveC said:
He went to the FAA rather than a DPE.




I haven't used this one in ages: :sitaware:


:D
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I seriously had no clue the FAA gave free checkrides. I thought you had to go through a DPE. I guess I'm so clueless because all my training has been done Part 141 at UND haha...
 
You could apply to Pinnacle :sarcasm:


The guy who got hired at 280 hours came into my 102 ground school class today to speak. I love foltz.

Very very interesting. I grilled him with questions.
 
Texasspilot said:
nearly anywhere.

ATP's quoting 8-10K for the CFI.

seriously I don't see why you couldn't do the course for less than 3,000$easy. A cheap 150 or 172 to learn and instruct from the right seat for a few hours and then a few hours in a hi-po/complex airplane to finish up. I'd say you should have it in less than 10 hours in the airplane easy.

The CFI is 99% knowledge. You don't need to waste money in the plane when you should be hittin books. Your commercial shows you know how to fly, all you need now is the instructional knowledge.

Go back to CALI, study and study hard. Be done in a month.

Plus i don't think the CFI is the rating you wanna rush through in a 14 day course.
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What about the MEI? Forgot something there? Anyways, you are mis quoting the ATP price pretty badly. FAA intial is free, $300 for the 2 add-ons, $200 per week to stay in ATPs apartments if you are not a career pilot, books included. I have my class in June and I have already received my books to study so there is no rushing thru in 14 days like you stated because it allows self-study(Gotta love part 61). Like Merit said, ATP is the best deal out there. Best of all, after graduation you have a high chance of being hired as an ATP instructor where you get all the multi-time you want! This is why I do not go the FBO route. Its too much of a pain to get multi-time unless you purchase into a time building program. Either that or good luck finding an Multi-student.
 
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