BACKGROUND; I’m a 170 hr TT ppl seeking to go into career in aviation. Cannot afford the lessons as it would be nearly $1k a week. As a result flight school owner wanted me to meet with him today to discuss options.
I met with the owner of the school today. The offer was essentially, IFR, CPL, CFI, and CFII(if I want the double I) in exchange for $30/hr instructing for 1500 hours. No debt to pay back just work for 1500 hours. Seems like an amazing deal to me. He also offered free cirrus training to be an instructor to sign off on eligible pilots which was cool.
Doesn’t seem to be any catches here. potentially $30k in free training.
He wants me to dedicate up to 1500 TT, not 1500 dual given.
I’d be a W2 employee making $30/hr.
Insurance is covered by school…5% of damages on ground I’m responsible for and up to $2,500 in air. I will seek my own CFI insurance as well however.
If I leave early I’ll be responsible for training costs (at a not yet determined pro rated amount, at least that’s what I took away from that)
I’ve already reached out to an attorney. Once I get a contract I will send it to him for him to analyze and make sure there’s no funny business in there. From what I’ve heard the owner is a very kind generous and not there to screw you.
It doesn’t seem like an awful deal to me, here’s why. We’re talking of upwards of $30,000 I’d have to spend to get those licenses. And then be a CFI until 1,500 hours anyways to move up to where I want to be.
If I can get paid $36k (estimated) total not including $30k on top of that for doing what I have to do anyways in the course of roughly 2 years instructing…. That’s a huge win! Yes I’m tied down, but remember… it’s the CHANCE to be off the hook for those expenses and a fairly strong one at that. Those are just my thoughts, but let me ask. What are yours?
It's ok to ball park info with the videos but they are made by entertainers, not historians as Metatron points out.
Thoughts?
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Just thought you all should know
Joining us are the folks behind the IBRO-SIMONS Computational Neuroscience Imbizo, listed here:
- Alex Antrobus (/u/adantro), from University College London.
- Peter Latham (/u/peterlatham), from University College London.
- Christopher Currin (/u/ChrisCurrin), from the University of Cape Town.
- Joseph Raimondo (/u/joeconfused), from the University of Cape Town.
- Tim Vogels (/u/tpvogels), from the University of Oxford.
Introduction:
> To accelerate the development of neuroscience in southern Africa, we organise a 3-week long "imbizo" (from Zulu - Xhosa, “a gathering to share knowledge”) in Muizenberg, Cape Town, South Africa. We bring together world leaders in computational/theoretical neuroscience and machine-learning with 31 African and Intercontinental students. Over 21 days together, we lecture, learn, code, brain-storm, eat, celebrate, and create a tight-knit network of inspired young scientists. In the century of the brain, African scientists and educators are poised to make important contributions to global neuroscience research. The “IBRO Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo” aims to further this goal, offer insight into the status quo, and enable knowledge transfer from the current leaders of the field. > > The Imbizo is modelled after the numerous other neuroscience summer schools in the northern hemisphere. We pick the best and favourite parts of each school and bring it to the Cape of Good Hope. But the Imbizo, as the most southern of all summer schools, faces a number of special challenges that come with its location and its diverse student body. Over the past three years we have tweaked lectures, tutorials and projects, and also dinning, accommodation and social activities to deliver the best learning experience for all of our students. > > The Imbizo is the brain-child of Alex Antrobus (University College London; UCL), Dr Joseph Raimondo (University of Cape Town; UCT), Prof Peter Latham (UCL), and Prof Tim Vogels (University of Oxford). Inspired by the imbizo's vision, Emma Vaughan (Conference Centre Management - UCT), and Christopher Currin (UCT) have joined the organising team to help implement a memorable summer school that lasts beyond the 3-weeks.
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It seems like people still think that average people can't survive in college, even in social science majors. It seems like people think that people with average intelligence are dumber then they actually are and can't make it in a higher education environment unless they major in something super easy such as education or business management (excluding social science and STEM majors).
Basically the tittle. I heard dogs can go between 6-8 hours without a bathroom break when they’re mature, but obviously our lil guy isn’t quite there yet. We spend a lot of time with him, like a lot. But we do crate him for a few hours a day for his nap time so we can work & sleep & what not.
Unfortunately, because I started school and go to work right after school, there’s an 8 hour period where no one is home to take him out to the bathroom, and he stays in his crate for 8 hours during that time. He’s soiled the crate every time so far that he’s had this 8 hour break, which is understandable since that’s a pretty long time. Neither of us have a family member or neighbor that can let him out unfortunately so we’re really out of options.
It’s only like this 2 days out of the week though, but we’re still concerned. Is this okay? Or is there any other possible solutions?
I know that many companies implemented VR to train employees. For example oil companies like BP and ExxonMobil use VR to train their employees in everyday work scenarios to lower the probability that errors occur in the real world. I also know about training Royal Mail postal workers in VR environment, it's all about dog attacks. And this type of trainings are there for couple years now.
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So I wonder, in the days of pandemic, I think more places have implemented remote training like this, including specifically VR/AR environments. Are you guys using this in your schools or workplaces? And if so - what is it about?
