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falconvalley · August 6th, 2007, 12:25

Depends on your level of experience. If you're not even close to 500 hours, I would do the CFI and start teaching, but only do it if you can put some heart into passing on your knowledge. You don't have to be Chuck Yeager, but you certainly need to care about your students.

There are other jobs you can get to start flying more hours for pay. With the way things are going, you will likely by able to find other non-CFI jobs soon that have minimums lower than 500 hours. Get your multi soon if you decide not to get your CFI. If you decide to get your CFI, get your multi afterwards. The reason I say that is if you're going to work as a CFI, just get it out of the way and start teaching. That way you can get some more experience and get paid for it while you finish your multi. If you need to keep a separate full-time or part-time job in addition to CFIing part-time or full-time, by all means do it. That's what I did.

August 6th, 2007, 12:25	#3
falconvalley Old Skool Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: KMKE Posts: 3,066	Re: Oh no not another carrer changer Depends on your level of experience. If you're not even close to 500 hours, I would do the CFI and start teaching, but only do it if you can put some heart into passing on your knowledge. You don't have to be Chuck Yeager, but you certainly need to care about your students. There are other jobs you can get to start flying more hours for pay. With the way things are going, you will likely by able to find other non-CFI jobs soon that have minimums lower than 500 hours. Get your multi soon if you decide not to get your CFI. If you decide to get your CFI, get your multi afterwards. The reason I say that is if you're going to work as a CFI, just get it out of the way and start teaching. That way you can get some more experience and get paid for it while you finish your multi. If you need to keep a separate full-time or part-time job in addition to CFIing part-time or full-time, by all means do it. That's what I did. __________________ Hey Imperial Fleet, get read to suck some DAK!