T6Harvard wrote:seanxair wrote:TLRippon wrote:I wonder if there is such a thing as a career flight instructor anymore. Anyone who started working as an FI in their early 20's and made a career out of it until retirement. Someone who didn't have another job in-between or before?
I know one such person. Properly decent chap and a good instructor by all accounts but probably makes a meagre living.
I think he has over 14,000 hours. How he remains sane I have no idea!
Phil Matthews at Cotswold Aero Club started as a teenage dogsbody at the same Club and went through the PPL - ground FRTOL instructor - IMC/BCPL/AFI (whereupon he quite the previous 'day job') - FI - .. route. Now 25,000h+ (a huge proportion of it
ab initio SEP), CFI, ME/IR Examiner, HCAP, .. all with the same Club. His sanity has even survived encounters with me over decades
https://www.flying-start.org/phil-mathews/ All-round good, amazingly unflappable, bloke
(mere guide at) Jet Age Museum, Gloucestershire Airport
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