Time alloted for your student?

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
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John King at the CPC conference last year said that the typical
instructional session at a profitable flight school should be two hours of
billed instructor time and between 1.1 and 1.4 hours of flight.


From an instructional perspective, I think this varies a lot by student and
phase of learning. Early on in a private curriculum this probably makes
sense. For a post-solo private student longer flight probably are more
worthwhile as well as more realistic for what the pilot will experience
later on. For an instrument student, doing an IFR rating in 1.4 hour
increments will unreasonably prolong the training process.

From a business perspective, I do not understand this rationale except if
the school is concerned about no-shows. In that case, the school should
implement a no-show fee for longer blocks of time. Assuming the student
shows up, clearly it is much more efficient and profitable for a school to
teach in larger blocks of time per student.



--
Richard Kaplan, CFII

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