I agree. The pay is extremely mediocre. I was stuck instructing there due to lack of money to move. Most people who "enjoy" instructing at UND are those who like it because their college buddies are still there.
True, what really bugged me was:
WX, during the winter the weather is so bad that sometimes you go over a week of not flying, I don't know how many times I drove out to the airport just to sit around all day hoping for the weather to break. There's only so many breifings you can do. Also trying to teach someone an ILS in full snowgear with the windsheild freezing on the inside cause its so cold the crappy glass warr's heat blows cold is no fun.
Always someone looking over your shoulder and to get anywhere it always felt like you had to suck up to the right person.
Attitude, the attitude sucks. I once got "talked" to by my lead because I was too friendly with my students, that I didn't hold the professionalism. My ways of instructing is to be good friends with my students, its makes a more comfortable teaching evciroment, and possibly thats why I had 100% passrate and highest completion rate in my team.
In the end, I realize that UND makes great airline pilots, yes if thats your plan and all you want to do it jump on a regional and ride that train to the majors go right ahead, and that's how they train you. I like to make real-world pilots. My belief is that if my student can enconter it out flying on their own, I want them to experience it first with me, someone whos experience and can show you what to do. UND does not like this.
Ok well I'm done ranting, everyone has their own experience. What I've noticed is that people who say UND is great really has no other experience to compare it to. Most CFI there, then jump on a regional and that's that. There is a UND Bubble, and well if you never really get out of it, how do you know its there.
=Jason-