Aviation is funny that way...it has its most underpaid doing one of the most important jobs...training new, safe, competent pilots.
-P Christian wrote: > Cory Papenfuss wrote: > >> I hear you. I've got almost 600 hours in my Cherokee 180, and >> rewarded myself this fall by earning a tailwheel (1939 J-4!) and >> HP/complex in my buddy's PA24-250. I'd like to work on my commercial but >> I can't justify the $120+/hour for a complex to train. > > On a typical fed-up-with-my-career-want-to-do-something-different day a > few months ago I looked in to flight school. Sent away for info and > talked to a rep at the PanAm flight academy. > > For roughly US$60k I could get a commercial, multi-engine, instrument > instructor rating (the idea is that you teach to get as many hours as > possible) with no prior ratings or experience. The tuition and living > expense is easy to finance with loans so it was sounding like a good > idea. I asked the school's representative what kind of salary a new > pilot could expect "$18k to $20k" So much for my career change... > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
