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Touchdown! Greaser!
If are a student with the goal of becoming an airline pilot, the boom for the regionals, at least for now, is over and the competition for the openings is no longer a warm body with flight hours.
What has been a shortage of instructors at the busiest flight schools for the last 8 years is also over. As an instructor, you are likely going to find yourself teaching at a flight school well beyond obtaining the hours required by the regionals.
As a result, the CFI shortage is also ending. The CFIs who treated there training as nothing more than a nuisance to get to the regionals are getting fired and replaced with better qualified instructors - who are having to compete for positions.
So unless you as a CFI want to get stuck at a low volume Part 61 school, I suggest you get your head into the curriculum and present yourself as the best candidate you can be. This applies if you are a CFI at a community college or a larger 141 school. Just because you trained there is not longer an assurance you will be hired there.
And for the folks considering accelerated CFI training with a rubber stamp DPE on the back end, good luck with that.
Just sayn.
What has been a shortage of instructors at the busiest flight schools for the last 8 years is also over. As an instructor, you are likely going to find yourself teaching at a flight school well beyond obtaining the hours required by the regionals.
As a result, the CFI shortage is also ending. The CFIs who treated there training as nothing more than a nuisance to get to the regionals are getting fired and replaced with better qualified instructors - who are having to compete for positions.
So unless you as a CFI want to get stuck at a low volume Part 61 school, I suggest you get your head into the curriculum and present yourself as the best candidate you can be. This applies if you are a CFI at a community college or a larger 141 school. Just because you trained there is not longer an assurance you will be hired there.
And for the folks considering accelerated CFI training with a rubber stamp DPE on the back end, good luck with that.
Just sayn.
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