Transpac Aviation NOT CFI friendly anymore

The CFI-I failures is just because the quality of some instructor new hires was declining. It was becoming a problem they were trying to fix by becoming more selective on interviews but again...attrition rate is high practically everyone leaves when they hit their times.

I can tell you it wasn't the examiners. I know why a lot of guys were failing and it was a lot of oral mistakes from people just unorganized and making serious bone head mistakes.

Also, keep in mind it's a big school. People have different bosses and that affects the way your schedule, flying, and overall experience is at TransPac....unfortunately. So mine was pretty good compared to others. Some were way better and some were way worse.
 
Itchy said:
Well how bad would they have it if you all felt the same way and organized?

Food for thought... I dunno how many CFIs they employ, but they can't be incredibly easy to find. I think you're in the drivers seat and just don't know it.
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100+ instructors and they do national recruiting pretty well...college fairs etc. Hiring classes were getting 10-15/month. Good enough to fill the attrition rate.
 
The_Duke182 said:
As one of the major flight schools in the Phoenix area, I feel it is important to give a heads up to any folks thinking about joining this place as flight instructors. I will be giving you the most up to date and how things have changed and not for the better.

Around August 2016 a new company took over Transpac with the idea of making the academy more profitable as well as wanting or what seemed at the time the intent to improve QOL for CFI's across the board.

Fast forward a few months later and these are the changes that have taken place.

-Compensation of $28.000 / year for 5 days of work at 10 hours (no less) each day. This translates to about $10.77 per hour. (Did not increase, this per my phone call to HR two weeks ago inquiring about pay for new CFI's)

-Compensation for working an extra day each week of around $100/day has been taken away.

-$100 bonus per student who passes their checkride on the first try has also been taken away.

-$100+ per month each CFI was getting back for declining health coverage has also been taken away.

-Salary 10k below national average for CFI remains the same with no plans whatsoever to get an increase.

-Actual flight hours per month during PPL work around 40 or 50.

-Actual flight hours of IR (many months after you start) around 80 since a 6th day is no longer paid therefore you wont get around 100+/month

Management rolled out an incentive bonus of $200 before taxes or around $150 after taxes per month based on companywide effort to achieve some unattainable numbers, which everyone laughed at since the amount of $500+ after taxes that each CFI was previously able to make per months PLUS extra flight hours have been reduced to $160ishh and NO extra flight time.

Before you sign a 12 month contract in which by the way the "free" instrument add on for CFI's is not that great because if you fail your checkride twice you are out AND still owe whatever money they put in towards your "free" CFI-I. With that said, simply ask them what the pass rate has been for CFI's instrument add on's in recent months and I hope they give you an honest answer, it has not been good at all.
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The instructor I employ is earning $68,000-72,000 per year. Come to SNA
 
KVNC said:
Hah. Sign me up!
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Anyone interested can PM me. I provide my CFI's a livable and fair wage. I keep them busy. They are flying 8 hours a day and getting paid 8 hours a day. I hated CFI's getting paid for only the time flown, now that I own my own school, I pay them for hours worked. If the CFI is required to be there for a student, the student should pay.
 
kryan11 said:
Negative, the contract is there to make sure that if you receive the sign on bonus or CFI-I training and don't finish the full year there, that you pay it back at a pro rated basis.
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So my coworker CFI calls me up just when you thought TRANSPAC couldnt go any lower, he got a call from Gene Zandee the "director of quality control" told him that when cfi's cancel a flight which is usually 4.5 hour blocks for two missions, that they need to stay and brief eith the students the ENTIRE time because this is what cfi's are being paid for ($28000) a year or $10.76 per hour.
It used to be that you could go home if you cancelled a mission because this would be out of your hands now they have hit a new low. Another reason to STAY AWAY from this place.

Sounds like new owners are getting rid of positions that do nothing but suck money out of the school, for what I can tell "quality control manager" is one of them to make such desperate moves out of nowhere.
 
The_Duke182 said:
So my coworker CFI calls me up just when you thought TRANSPAC couldnt go any lower, he got a call from Gene Zandee the "director of quality control" told him that when cfi's cancel a flight which is usually 4.5 hour blocks for two missions, that they need to stay and brief eith the students the ENTIRE time because this is what cfi's are being paid for ($28000) a year or $10.76 per hour.
It used to be that you could go home if you cancelled a mission because this would be out of your hands now they have hit a new low. Another reason to STAY AWAY from this place.

Sounds like new owners are getting rid of positions that do nothing but suck money out of the school, for what I can tell "quality control manager" is one of them to make such desperate moves out of nowhere.
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You're still there? After how much you complained, I thought for sure you would be off at your new CFI job making 80k a year and racking up them hours. Shoot, with your knowledge of employing CFIs I thought you would have even started your own flight school by now.
 
kryan11 said:
You're still there? After how much you complained, I thought for sure you would be off at your new CFI job making 80k a year and racking up them hours. Shoot, with your knowledge of employing CFIs I thought you would have even started your own flight school by now.
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This is management's come back when they have no way to defend their poor working conditions.

I am there until september because I cant afford to pay back the bonus.
 
The_Duke182 said:
This is management's come back when they have no way to defend their poor working conditions.

I am there until september because I cant afford to pay back the bonus.
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I'm not management, far from it and you know that.

Take out a loan, with your new big bucks CFI job you'll pay it back in no time.
 
I see this post has a lot of views. Hopefully it helps prospective CFI's make an informed decision based on facts exposed on this thread which is the whole purpose of it.
 
Guys like @tcco94 sound like were there when things hadnt changed so drastically for the worse. TRUST ME you would not do it all over again the same under this new conditions.
 
The_Duke182 said:
Guys like @tcco94 sound like were there when things hadnt changed so drastically for the worse. TRUST ME you would not do it all over again the same under this new conditions.
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I left the end of November and the only changes you listed were related to pay. I never worked the 6th day. I was there with the same management you were.

You're giving false information based on hours. I got 40 hours for 6 months followed by every month of 120+.....exactly what I said in my post.

Quit your crying dude. Like I said you don't go to TransPac for the QOL, you go for hours. Not pay. Clearly you learned after you signed the contract so you're disgruntled. I didn't enjoy teaching Chinese either but I did it. Stop making it sound like it's hell at TransPac. They do exactly what they promote...give instructors hours. That's why people will accept $28k salary.

You're attitude sounds like you'll be complaining when you go to your first regional too.
 
Also, clearly you know nothing about management. Attacking Gene? That dude is one of the smartest guys on property that keeps the program alive for instructors! He's your fallback when the students try to kill you! Lol

The door is always available to quit. They usually never pursue you for paying back the bonus either if you're this disgruntled.
 
kryan11 said:
You're still there? After how much you complained, I thought for sure you would be off at your new CFI job making 80k a year and racking up them hours. Shoot, with your knowledge of employing CFIs I thought you would have even started your own flight school by now.
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Ladies and gents, we just found the "company guy."
 
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