Starting Pay

clrd4takeoff

clrd4takeoff

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Hello fellow pilots,

Does anyone know what the starting pay is with ATP if offered a CFI position? I start in JAX on the 5th of July.

I have to start making plans on what to do after I finish!

Thanks for any input on this subject!

TL
 
I'm not a CFI with ATP, but from what I've heard the going pay is $1k a month -or- $800 a month and a place to sleep.

Any ATP CFI's out there that can confirm this?
 
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I'm not a CFI with ATP, but from what I've heard the going pay is $1k a month -or- $800 a month and a place to sleep.

Any ATP CFI's out there that can confirm this?

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i heard the same.
 
Do they allow you to work a part time job on the side?

I am married with two kids. We would never make on $1000/month!

Who else is hiring flight instructors?

TL
 
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Do they allow you to work a part time job on the side?

I am married with two kids. We would never make on $1000/month!

Who else is hiring flight instructors?

TL

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When I was down there I talked to one of the instructors and he said he logged well over 100hours in his first month of instructing. I would think a part time job would not work when you are building that kind of time.
 
While it is possible to have a part time job while instructing for ATP, it would have to be a very flexible job...

For example, if you have someone scheduled for a checkride tomorrow and the flight training is scheduled for today, but the weather is bad all day, then you'll likely be doing the training that night. You can't just reschedule the checkride because you couldnt get the training done during the day.

If your full time job can be flexible enough to allow ATP duties to come first and foremost, sometimes with little or no advance notice, then you'll be able to hold a part time job working for ATP.

You might be able to find a part time job as a flight instructor working for an FBO, but just expect that it will likely take much longer to get enough hours to move beyond flight instructing.
 
I do some laptop computer repair and networking on the side, but most of that is done at home late at night. I do know of an instructor that used to be a bartender, but those late nights were too much to handle so they quit. It's a full time job.
 
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