I did a thing. As many know, I’m a CFI-I chasing the career 2.0 dream of flying professionally. Last week I interviewed with a regional airline for FO position in their cadet program. I was accepted! What does that mean? It means when I finish up my hours, ~700 left 😬, I will be given a class date and learn to fly jets! Very cool peace of mind as I chase my ATP minimums!

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.

Good news! My local flight club, that I have been with for years, has agreed to take me on as a part time CFI! It's a great environment for flexibility and pretty relieved since the options around me are limited... especially for part time. It also allows me to transition to full time if I would like since there is a healthy backlog of students. Week or so of some onboarding and I should get my first victim, err student. ;)

I think it's time to find a new job. My current tech job has burned me out. I think i'm going to look for something aviation related (Software or other) or lean into full time CFI for a while. It's a massive drop in pay however but man... I need a change of some sort. If anyone has ideas on aviation related careers for a 15 year Software developer/manager with a CFI, hit me up. #unicornjob

It's been a minute since I've posted. I know that I said I would post content through my CFI training but failed to do that. I really just got super busy and kept pushing it off. Then I got into hardcore study mode in the last couple of months. I am pleased to say that today, I am now a newly minted CFI. I was well prepared by my instructor and though long, I was able to nail the 6 hour oral and 2 hour flight. Time to rest a bit! #Aviation #avgeek #CFI

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IPC and Club annual complete. Haven't flown and approach in 9 months since i've been working on my CFI. 3 approaches in the books and I killed them if I do say so myself. Check pilot complimented me but was skeptical that I said I haven't flown one in so long. The log book don't lie... er usually. :) #Avgeek #Aviation #CFI