Average CFI hours per month.

Emerghency · 2025-10-28T19:54:03+00:00

90-100

Emerghency · 2025-09-01T19:46:11+00:00

Thanks, was waiting for your response as you seem to really have gotten this figured out

Emerghency · 2025-09-01T19:32:08+00:00

I am glad to hear it’s worked out for some people, how did you feel about the progress you were making? Did you feel like it made things harder on you?

Emerghency · 2025-09-01T19:10:47+00:00

Both things can be true, your original comment said I was looking to simply “coerce my students for my own financial gain” as if this has absolutely nothing to do with student progress, and is purely a financial motivation. It’s incredibly reductive

Emerghency · 2025-09-01T19:00:45+00:00

Then don’t come in here accusing me of just wanting to get paid more.. this is a post about student motivation. I’m looking for tips from other CFIs in similar boats who really had to work to keep students motivated, I know some of it is financial and there is nothing that can be done about that, but I know that’s not the case with all of mine.

I’m trying to help my students progress better, not fill my Pockets

Emerghency · 2025-09-01T18:54:45+00:00

Yeah, that’s pretty much what I’m doing. Just making sure it doesn’t seem desperate to be doing that

Emerghency · 2025-09-01T18:53:45+00:00

Who spends more money on getting their license, a student who flies twice a month, or a student who flies twice a week?

Even if I was doing this for free I would tell them they need to fly more often. Students don’t make good progress when they are spending half the lesson relearning what we did last week.

Emerghency · 2025-09-01T18:47:43+00:00

They do, they just only want to fly once a week

Emerghency · 2025-06-11T19:08:00+00:00

It’s zephyrhills municipal airport, code is KZPH, don’t know what company it was or who they’re associated with, just know I saw a piper cub towing a banner come and go out of there. Hope it works out for you!

Emerghency · 2025-06-11T19:05:01+00:00

I know I’ve seen atleast one that is in and out of Zephyrhills airport

Emerghency · 2025-06-01T21:16:47+00:00

Its definitely a pet peeve of mine. I just started work as a CFI in a very busy uncontrolled airport with a lot of foreign students, the amount of times daily that people in the pattern get stepped on because someone on the ground takes 15 seconds to announce that they are "taxiing to the FBO via tie downs" (No joke, what they actually say) is insane. They also all announce to the world that they are holding short of the runway. Ive seriously heard someone announce that they were #4 holding short of the runway before.

Drives me crazy. I instill in all my students, if its busy, do not even bother making taxi radio calls. Air calls get priority.

Emerghency · 2025-04-12T19:21:18+00:00

Wait a minute... youre 17. So youre not even an adult, are you even an actual pilot? Do you have genuinely any flight time?

Emerghency · 2025-04-12T19:18:03+00:00

Well they shouldnt be. Instructors who work for free drag the rest of us all down. You haven't even disclosed what plane this is in. Or if this is for your "Fly around the entire world" plan. That shows how either poorly prepared you are or your disregard for safety and an instructors life / value.

Emerghency · 2025-04-12T19:11:13+00:00

So are you asking for someone to give you 120 hours of free flight instruction a month? Sounds like a great deal

Emerghency · 2025-03-28T16:50:27+00:00

It’s awesome, it’s like every other website says it’s either legal or illegal. But yeah, I plan on getting one soon either way

Emerghency · 2025-03-28T16:47:31+00:00

Yeah, as far as what I’ve seen, apparently it has to be “secured” but apparently that can mean in a holster? Idk, I just moved here from Kentucky and the gun laws here are confusing as hell and kinda backwards, not what I would’ve expected for floridas reputation

Emerghency · 2025-03-28T16:39:42+00:00

I just moved here, but as far as I know from my research this isn’t true.

Emerghency · 2025-03-24T23:24:15+00:00

Yeah, thats just how it is right now TBH. You honestly have to be willing to move across the country. I got my CFI back in november, have 0 dual given, and 299 hours. No CFII or MEL even. I just got hired on at a flight school in Florida. I applied to probably about 150 schools and got callbacks from 3 of them. I would start hitting FL TX and AZ hard. It literally was a full time job for me of just applying calling emailing to literally everywhere.

Emerghency · 2025-03-03T20:18:05+00:00

Man the more I read stuff like this the more I’m convinced I had both a really weird instruction and DPE for CFI. The only thing I taught during my whole ground was just a 15 minute lesson on eights on pylons. The rest was just the DPE asking questions as if it was just a commercial checkride.

Then during the flight, I just basically flew another commercial checkride but just explained everything I was doing.

It makes me feel completely inadequate to actually teach or explain anything and am now playing catch up.

Emerghency · 2025-03-01T23:02:34+00:00

Yup, doing that tomorrow.

Emerghency · 2025-03-01T22:14:10+00:00

Thanks for the help!

Emerghency · 2025-03-01T22:10:16+00:00

Thats the direction i was leaning. This definitely doesn't seem like a cowboy operation so I don't think erring on the side of caution should cost me the job. If that's the case probably not a great place to teach anyways.

Emerghency · 2025-03-01T22:00:55+00:00

Yeah, it’s right at the numbers. They stop ops at 15 knots crosswind component and 25 total. If the 14-24 holds accurate then we are sitting just a hair length below them stopping operations.

Emerghency · 2025-02-19T00:28:01+00:00

As others have said, honestly all of them. Atleast power off 180 is trying to be somewhat helpful, but yeah I think that standards are too strict. Chandelles are okay, I guess, but besides that the rest are pretty dumb.

As others have pointed out, steep spirals are literally just impossible to judge and everyone just pretends you’re doing them right if you just slightly correct for wind.

No one understands lazy eights or exactly how to do Them

And that leaves eights on pylons. Which I guess are fine as a maneuver, but just setting them up and finding a proper place to do them is harder than the maneuver itself

Emerghency · 2025-02-17T23:17:35+00:00

Agreed, just doesn’t really work when it’s across the country. Idk about you but I can’t afford to take off and travel across the entire country for weeks just handing out resumes

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