Just Shawn™️ 🛩️I've started the onboarding process with my flight club for my part time CFI gig. Mostly meetings with the Chief flight instructor going over the CFI handbook and talking through philosophies. I just have to complete a quick flight with the Chief and I'll be assigned my first student. Pretty exciting! He also said I could ramp up to full time, if I want, pretty quickly which will be super helpful if my FT job goes away. I heard layoffs were coming at my job so that's a bummer.
Sam - WiredForFlight@Transvection I find it very interesting as our flight club is very anti formalized training with club CFIs and others like yours or Oshkosh’s are very pro formalized training as part of the club.
@WiredForFlight Yeah, it's pretty interesting but I think it is really to create a unified SOP and facilitate the safety culture of the club. However, the CFI's have wide latitude in methods. Our club is pretty old, over 60 years. The culture is what attracted me, all walks of life with very little in the way of politics or hazardous attitudes. One question I asked was how do you make it to 60 years without bad things happening or bad members joining etc? That was a long conversation. lol
@WiredForFlight But ultimately it came down to just trying to instill the safety culture and not promote bad habits. Oddly, you would think they would be kicking members out left and right to help shape the environment but members have rarely been kicked out throughout the clubs history.
@Transvection yeah it is hard to kick members out for sure.