There was no real emphasis on hours at my school but we all worked as hard when the flying was available, Cabair priced themselves out of the mass PPL market in 2000 and have never recovered the buisiness. Mid-level Management is completely incompetent with some equally amateur directors, but for the most part, unless you are at Elstree, you won't encounter them. The instructors at the schools now seem to be part-time for the most part and seem to undertake a minimal role in the running of the schools. They now only employ non-sponsored instructors on a paid-as-you-fly basis (GBP25 per revenue hour). They also gave me a fairly meagre discount on aircraft hire, but friendly based instructors and examiners meant that I never paid much for my FIC renewal, MEP rating or MEP renewals.Īll that is history now as are most of the insights above. They were one of the few flying schools to employ people in line with employment law. They paid me a salary of GBP850 per month regardless of hours flown, weather, holiday, sickness and if I worked reasonably hard I could earn in excess of that. I did three years non-sponsored with them and finished with 1700 odd hours, in that time I can honestly say I was never asked to do any menial jobs that weren't in line with my position and I was never pressured by my CFI to go flying in bad weather, there was one ops manager who used to try it on but a simple no usually ended the conversation. The Heathcote days are gone and for the most part when I was there it was a good place to be compared to other flying schools. Ĭabair is a funny old company to work for, some love it, some hate it and some just try to get on with day to day living. ĪT the end of the day if you want lots of instructing hours in busy good catchment area flying schools, flying well maintained aircraft (+ve thing about Cabair!) you won't go far wrong with them. that just shows how far apart different organisations can be.
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I am very lucky that I now work part time at a place where I make a professional judgment on what my student will gain from flying in the days weather, I would be more likely to be critised at my current school by the CFI for taking people flying in adverse WX. BUT it is a commercial world out there, but I felt Cabair took it 'too far with emphasis on hours'. Having worked at a number of other places over the years, nowadays not for hours (I have long since been airlines for 10+ years) but for fun and enjoyment I feel a sense of duty and personal pride to not rip off my students and fly them in all conditions, and do excercises out of sequence just to satisfy a mangemnets desire for revenue. I did about 1000 instructing hours over 2.5 years with them.Ī lot depends on the individual schools CFI's personality and how you fit in, at the end of the day the one good thing I would say about Cabair is that they have survived thick and thin when many a school has gone by the way side. including Cabair.ĭespite my above remarks over Cabairs mangement if you after hours and experience you could do a lot worse. In summary a good company to start your flying career with, don't stay there too long and don't get jaded. Cabair's only airline partner is FlyBe and quite a few instructors get taken on but they have to be patient. However this forum forwarned me back in 2000 when I asked a similar question, so that came as no shock. Whereas I'm greatful to Cabair for getting my career of the ground as soon as my KLMuk sponsorship ended they did didly-squit to find alternative employment when Ryanair bought Buzz. I don't think it would be easy to survive the winter without a second job, which of course you are not allowed to have. Now all the instructors are on flight pay, this is OK as long as you have good weather. I always considered I was getting paid in flight hours, night hours in particular, I considered, were gold dust. The down side was doing 5 days work for 4 days pay but as the money was so low anyway it didn't make much difference! Employment law can't apply to flying schools. Also the students tend to be well-off with good contacts. Worked with a good set of instructors and got lots of flying hours. I worked for Cabair for 2 years and really enjoyed it.
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