Pros
Flight Hours were decent when you’re not stuck in a sim or online briefings.
Cons
My experience was miserable as a student. And terrible as an instructor. From not knowing your 10-12 hour shift schedule until the night before. Being switched to Night Shift without a single day to adjust and no care in the world about rest requirements. To only being paid for 40 hour work week even though we worked at least 60 hours per week- without over time - in Arizona - where cost of living is crazy- $2200 per month is not enough for anything seeing as you need 3x rent to be able to apply for anything. To having contract obligations ignored by the company- (no pay raise for further certs and licenses F1, F2 F3 then being told that flight time is our compensation- not allowing instructors the required multi engine times without having MEI (keep in mind there is no raise and the hours are not productive in the program)), for example at we not being able to get quality hours and having a couple approved airports we can fly to - making us incapable of ever broadening our horizons and becoming safer pilots when we eventually fly hundreds of paying customers behind us- it would be nice that we have a good background. - but no, not at CAE. Jon M. the leader of the building would lose patience and threaten to fire people for looking for part time work to make ends meet (recorded phone line proof) Management continued to lie to my perspective airline about how much I make and so my airline was unwilling to work with allowing me to continue in the program and instruct at my new job- it’s a business decision I don’t agree with, but it is what it is the managers in the building a unpleasant and externally rude- they do not respond to any concerns that any instructor has. They acknowledge that there are issues with all kinds of things and then prove time and time again that they do not care. - My students have been continuously disrespected by the company- they, the customer, the whole reason why anyone has a job, being so disrespected in and of itself is reason enough to leave and go to a place that respects the ones that allow us to have a job while providing benefits and perks that prove that they foster a GREAT working environment. Safety threats are ignored time and time again TSA reports need to happen but when instructors bring up concerns there is no follow up
