Initial CFI in 210

Speed Pilot

Speed Pilot

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Hey guys, looking for some advice. Short story is the company I'm looking to work for has one flight instructor. He is quitting to pursue better opportunities so the owner wants me to get through my CFI as quickly as possible. Their arrow is at their other FBO across the state and is booked for the next month. They want me to have my CFI done in 3 weeks to come online and pick up all of the old instructor's students. So the owner made me an offer of the 210 for my CFI training and he'd give me the Arrow price. Souns like a steal of a deal for a LOT more airplane but I'm wondering if I'm biting off more than I can chew with that kind of performance. I realize most of the CFI checkride is on the ground not in the air but I don't want to increase the odds of me failing the flight portion too much. Should I hold out till I can get the Arrow? By the way I have exactly 0 time in both the Arrow and 210 so either way it will be a new aircraft for me.
 
Speed Pilot said:
Should I hold out till I can get the Arrow? By the way I have exactly 0 time in both the Arrow and 210 so either way it will be a new aircraft for me.
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Are you crazy? Jump at it. The 210 will be a lot more fun and it will glide way better than the Arrow. If you don't have much Piper time, you'd probably spend more time getting used to the Arrow than you would the 210.
 
All my time in singles is in 172's and 182's. So yeah looking at it that way the learning curve will be shallower. My only Piper time is in the Seneca I used for my multi.
 
Speed Pilot said:
All my time in singles is in 172's and 182's. So yeah looking at it that way the learning curve will be shallower. My only Piper time is in the Seneca I used for my multi.
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The Seneca I is more challenging to fly than either the Arrow or the 210. I can't imagine you'd have a problem with either.
 
tgrayson said:
The 210 will be a lot more fun and it will glide way better than the Arrow.
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Wait a second...Are you saying that the Piper Arrow doesn't glide well??? :p

As in this Piper Arrow :
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Okay...I have way to much freaking time on my hands! HAHA :banghead::banghead::buck::p:crazy:
 
Speed Pilot said:
Hey guys, looking for some advice. Short story is the company I'm looking to work for has one flight instructor. He is quitting to pursue better opportunities so the owner wants me to get through my CFI as quickly as possible. Their arrow is at their other FBO across the state and is booked for the next month. They want me to have my CFI done in 3 weeks to come online and pick up all of the old instructor's students. So the owner made me an offer of the 210 for my CFI training and he'd give me the Arrow price. Souns like a steal of a deal for a LOT more airplane but I'm wondering if I'm biting off more than I can chew with that kind of performance. I realize most of the CFI checkride is on the ground not in the air but I don't want to increase the odds of me failing the flight portion too much. Should I hold out till I can get the Arrow? By the way I have exactly 0 time in both the Arrow and 210 so either way it will be a new aircraft for me.
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Sounds like you have some barganing power.

I would recommend having them pay for your rating in whatever aircraft they have available. But I wouldn't pay a dime for the planes. They need you and CFIs are getting harder and harder to come by.
 
moxiepilot said:
Sounds like you have some barganing power.

I would recommend having them pay for your rating in whatever aircraft they have available. But I wouldn't pay a dime for the planes. They need you and CFIs are getting harder and harder to come by.
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Nah, I'd pay for my rating. These guys have been helping me along for over a year. Helped me build a good chunk of my cross country time ferrying their pilots around in their 182 last summer during fire season. They're good people and they give their pilots lots of turbine right seat opportunity on charters.
 
All the effort I put into making the Piper Arrow on Microsoft Paint, and not even a single friggin comment! what gives! :crazy:
 
I've got about 1000 hours of 210T time in the past 24 months...

on that note, I just got the cfi cert done at shebles...

I used shebles c172 rg for the checkride.

Im not sure I would have wanted to use the 210 for a checkride...it is alot of performance especially for some of the maneuvers, it can be hard to get the airplane to decend without pulling the power way back. I've never tried to stall a 210 either, dont know what those are like.

the other poster is right, cfi's ARE becoming more hard to find. That school should be paying for your training and the airplane! just tell them you cant afford it (which you can't). if they want you bad enough they will pay your training easily, or help you out a little more. I mean the guy said he wants you in three weeks? is he ordering you around? tell him to fork it out.

In my class at shebles there was a guy... a school in long beach was paying for this guy's commercial single and cfi.... for him to train some smelly indian students though...

good luck studying! :)
 
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