Flying Hours

[nott00shabby]

Hi there, I plan on becoming a career instructor because i love teaching and flying. I know that you only get paid for the amount of actual flying time and i was just wondering how many hours does the average flying instructor fly a week. (depending on the weather of course)

Thanks

[C-GPFG]

From the Instructor Flight Time thread...this is at a higher paying flight school that pays $30/hr to start.

...In the GTA I'd say 65% of the year is flyable with a day or two off a week. Semi busy I'd say is 3.5 hours booked a day. Less 5% for no shows and no go's. So...

65% of 365 x 3.5 = 830 - 5% = 788 hours

Toronto Airways starts off at $30.00? for a class IV

788 x $30 = $23,640 before taxes. Take home would be around $21,000/yr

[AUGER9]

From the schools I've been in contact with in southern ontario, the lowest pay was 28/hour, average was about 33, for class 4s. Don't forget, you get paid for briefings and pgi's aswell. 800 sounds about right, you can always get more though.

[SkyWolfe]

I known a few instructors that flew their bags off - and others that sat around and didn't feel like flying... So I guess that's kinda up to you and were you're located.

Congrats on making a good choice BTW. It seems so many people just want hours and have no actual interest in teaching others...



Wolfie

[Hedley]

NTS: congratulations on your noble aspiration of
wishing to teach others to fly! I might humbly suggest
the following:

0) ignore the various snot-nosed children that look
down upon career instructors. Who taught them to
fly?

1) consider keeping your flight instruction part-time -
weekends and evenings only. Don't be in too much
of a hurry to quit your day job. If you do, don't burn
any bridges - who knows, you might want to do it
again some day

2) get your instructor rating, and teach at an FTU
that suits your style. Work your way up through
the instructor ratings. Along the way, if it is convenient,
get some varied experience - tailwheel, float, multi
engine, IFR, aerobatic, etc. Whatever comes your
way. Try really hard not to end up as a class one
instructor that has only flown 172's.

3) if you intend to stay in instructing for the long
haul, sooner or later you're going to end up working
for yourself - you will tire of getting your $12/hr pittance
from the FTU. Freelance, or own the FTU, or some
part of it. Start your own FTU.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

[nott00shabby]

Thankyou all very much for your replies and support

[g_goo_goo]

Does anybody know if you can be an instructor part time? I've got a good daytime job that pays the bills and I can work flex hours... How many hours can you potentially teach per day if you work 7hrs a day at your other job?

[donnybrook]

you can also teach at a school like confed or sault college, and they make reasonable $$$ with bennies. good lifestyle and sched, too. (please, no soo jokes!)

[AUGER9]

you can also teach at a school like confed or sault college, and they make reasonable $$$ with bennies. good lifestyle and sched, too. (please, no soo jokes!)

Not sure about soo, but at confed they only take past grads to teach the first years. The second year instructors have many thousand hours flying experience, and they are highly favourable to past grads as well. Otherwise, the colleges are probably the best place to be a career instructor for sure!

[square]

Does anybody know if you can be an instructor part time? I've got a good daytime job that pays the bills and I can work flex hours... How many hours can you potentially teach per day if you work 7hrs a day at your other job?

Instructors don't have duty day regs, so I guess 17 hours.

[Stevo226]

Aero Academy in London is 800/month base plus 20/hour for class 4. on average its about 20 hours/week

800 + 20x80 = 2400/month.

plus benefits