UND Partnership with ASA & Delta

jtrain609 said:
I hate to be the one to break this party up, but ASA is looking for voluntary furloughs right now.
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Where did you obtain this information? I haven't since this posted anywhere else. Seems like ASA is still running classes, specifically one on Nov 7.
 
gotWXdagain said:
Its actually not too bad, the only trouble is finding work during No-fly november. Contrary to popular belief the higher-ups don't go around looking for ways to screw their CFI's, but rather help them out (additional compensation as a start).
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I disagree with this statement having first hand experience instructing for them and constantly getting "talked to" and working my tail off just to make min hours.

=Jason-
 
Have you worked here recently? Just curious. From what I can gather UND seems to be a very disorganized organization sometimes, having heard from some CFI's who have the worst experiences with higher ups to CFI's like me who have had relatively good experiences with the higher ups. Then again, you gotta take everything with a grain of salt from some people.
 
I worked at UND until about a year ago (I was there for almost two years), then jumped ship for an instructing job with better pay and weather.

My experience was pretty mixed. I had very good experiences with pretty much all of the higher-ups (especially the chief and assistant chief instructor), and most of the leads, but my particular lead was disorganized and unapproachable to the point where everyone who could get transferred to someone else did.

I ended up resigning after my lead decided to transfer most of my students to other instructors (without telling the students or myself beforehand) with no reasonable explanation for doing so, and I wasn't happy with how UND had dealt with some of the issues with Air China students, so I decided it was time to move elsewhere.

I still think UND is a great program (although I agree 100% about the "UND bubble"), and it's a pretty good job for a beginning CFI, but it just wasn't somewhere I wanted to continue working.
 
I bailed for the railroad pay, horrible lifestyle at work, great at home. I can agree with ndakcfi and the leads really varied and had favorites. The politics are really the driving factor with flight being more quantified than qualified. There have been a lot of hard lessons that haven't really hit home yet with undergraduate vs contract students. There is a difference with motivation and time to soak in ideas. With that, there are a lot of different leads pulling a lot of different CFI's in different directions. Makes it hard to work there somedays. I appreciated my students, have no regrets about leaving the organization. I wish I found the same pay in flying, but maybe someday. Not today.
 
When do you think hiring will open again? I'm trying to pick up some extra work to pay for college.
 
From the posting -> "Applicants without a CFII – must realize that they are only able to work with courses taught during daylight hours."

When did this start happening? and that means a CFI without CFII can teach... nothing, except 112 I suppose.
 
I'm scratching my head on that one too...and did we ever get an answer as to if a CFI with no (I) can teach the new AC 323? I remember a rousing debate with no real conclusion from our last flightops meeting.
 
I don't think the higher ups even know, but my gut would say no, because you're giving them training on instrument procedures that is, no matter what anybody tries to tell you ("well it's just practice for when they get to 325"), being used as part of a Commercial/Instrument course and therefore being used to obtain an Instrument rating. Another question has to do with AVIT 325- only an MEI can teach the course, but they will be flying Cessna's while going through the 325 course (I believe the last 325 lesson is a PDPIC XC, Airplane isn't specific), even if they are in a Cessna does that have to be provided by an MEI only?
 
And somehow Fargo FSDO approved this and never thought to ask these questions...

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I especially like how they never explicitly specify that slow flight needs to be done in block 1 of 102, even though it's an FAA-required presolo maneuver. Apparently "flight at various airspeeds and configurations" is the closest that they come to that.
 
It's a small wonder how they can enforce "TCO Compliance" with some of the cock-ups in there...

I, too, am looking for a conclusive answer about non-CFII holders teaching AC323, especially if those changes end up being rolled into the UG TCOs as they were hinting last ops meeting.
 
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