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Originally Posted by Nick Congratulations! Since pay is by the hour, do you get paid anything when you first get there? I'm wondering if there is any large delay in between arriving and starting to fly. |
Well, from what I gather, you'll be instructing pretty much from when the students get there. My group, from Shanghai Airlines, is scheduled to show up on the 14th, and will start flying as soon as they get TSA approval, which ought to be done before they arrive. Some of the previous groups had a bit of a delay, so the instructors would just do ground school (pay is the same, $18/hr, for ground school) until the approval came in.
Like I said, it seems like a good deal, so if it's something that would appeal to you, don't take my word from it, but come in, interview, and see for yourself. They need instructors like crazy.
One other thing... it's done part 61, which means the students all need their 50 x-c PIC time for their instrument, and we ride along for all of it. So for those guys without a lot of cross country, you'll have at least 200 hours of real, 50NM cross country time just from the instrument. And that's not even counting the private and commercial multi cross countries. Just FYI.
Good luck!
FF