Super CFI Pay?

[Minnesota_Flyer]

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That's the problem with your analogy. Playing golf will not kill you if you miss a birdie putt.

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You never know.

To add another analogy, lawyers at my firm are billed out at from $180-200/hour for a 1st year attorney fresh out of law school to well over $500/hour for senior partners. With that background, I get real impatient with flight instructors who seem to be embarassed about charging $35/hour for flight instruction. It's really not that much $$, all things considered.

Of course, the people paying my bills aren't starving flight students.

MF

 

[pilot602]

My only point in mentiong "Golf Pros" was that people are morethan willing to pay someone (quite a lot) to teach them how to play a game then turn around and raise hell about having to pay a CFI $35/hr.

Golf Pro = teaches you how to swing a metal stick, with the sole purpose of hitting a little ball down a field.
CFI = teaches you how to take an imperfect machine, maintained by imperfect people and pilot it across an imperfect landscape filled with imperfect weather and then manage to stay alive.

To say Golf Pros somehow deserve their fees and in the same post infer that CFIs don't because they may be "young" is foolish.

I wasn't running down Golf Pros. I was running down the guy who is willing to pay $100/hr to learn to play a game then turn around and complain about paying $35/hr to learn how not to kill one's self in an aircraft.

 

[mtsu_av8er]

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If the CFIs in Vero got $60K a year, some would never leave.

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Nooo, they pay $60K a year to work there!!!!

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Must....resist.....the urge.....to flame.........

Nah, just kidding. I know you're joking.



You are joking, right?

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Of course...I couldn't resist the urge to say that!!

Hoping that nobody took me seriously, of course, because that could get NASTY!!!

 

[JHines]

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People will pay $90/hr for a tennis-pro, or $110/hr for a golf-pro (both of which the "pro" usually only means they did one or two tours on the pro-circuit, finished last and started teaching) or $80/hr for a car mechanic but then they'll turn around and b*tch about paying a CFI $30/hr.

WTFO

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Keep in mind that most flight students are feeling the combined rate of the CFI plus the plane - easily $90 or $110 per hour. I'd gladly pay the CFI more if planes weren't so ridiculously expensive to operate and rent.

 

[Aussie]

I dont know where they got their info from, but youll never make that in Oz, and obviously as you all have said, in the US either.

Our regionals only pay a fraction of that too!!

Take care

AUssie

 

[tonyw]

Here is my deal. I'll gladly pay more for an instructor who's better. I'll learn more, I'll learn faster, and in the long run, I will save money. Plus, I'd much rather learn from a guy who's really loving doing it than a guy who's just going through the motions.

Right now, the guy who I am flying with is an ex-Vietnam chopper pilot. Well, you know what that means. He has no dreams of flying the 7E7 or the A380 across the oceans. He is really into teaching and he's got a boatload of experience.

When I went up for my check out in the club's planes, he had me do some manuevers and landings that are on the private checkride. While I did them to PTS standards before and did them on that check out, he said, okay, you did fine on those, but do you want to learn how to make them better? I said yes, and he showed me some tricks that were just great.

Any surprise that I plan on sticking with this guy as long as he wants to teach me?

I'd gladly pay more for that kind of teaching.