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This company has been run by the same family for decades, and their reluctance to hire professional management shows. They also tend to hire instructors from their own CFI academy. The academy is excellent, but by hiring mostly students and having MGMT that has never worked anywhere else, the gene pool gets pretty shallow. They do have some great programs allowing the office people to earn ratings. They are cutthroat; saw a long time mech, with great skills fired on the spot for a minor mistake. The mechanics are all top notch, but they are run into the ground often working 14+hour shifts weeks in a row. The planes are worn out, and the planes they use for complex training are maintenance hogs. Pucker factor is high, especially at ADS, where there many miles of city to fly over before there is anywhere to land. If your goal is to grind out a bunch of time in a hurry, you can put up with inept mgmt for a while, and you don't place a lot of value on your personal safety, this is the place for you.

Do not work here unless you trained here. Management team is toxic, Flight OPs is terribly managed, work life balance is less than abysmal. 

Everything is done on paper some times your schedule given out as late as 5 PM the day before
Antiquated Computer system that crashes constantly
Management staff is toxic 
Not safety focused and will pressure you to fly in Thunderstorms and other dangerous conditions
Will pressure you sign off students you don't want to
Feels like high school with their cliques
Pay is not competitive
If you complain about conditions you're punished
Lucky if you'll get more than 12 hours rest time
Will schedule you any of the 24 hours in a day
Live by the phrase: It's our way or the highway, but they refuse to define what that is until you find out.

My experience at American Flyers was far from positive. I worked as a CFII for a year and a half, and the environment was highly stressful and unstable. The scheduling was chaotic, making it difficult to plan your life outside of work. There was no sense of job security—you never knew if you'd be fired at any moment. Management seemed to exploit the fact that instructors needed flight hours, using this as leverage to keep us in line rather than providing support and stability. I would not recommend this place to anyone looking for a secure and respectful working environment.

Little to no guidance for your job duties....If you do A, you get told you should have done B....then you do B, and get told you should have done A.  If you're in the cool club you can screw up regularly and not get in trouble or worry about losing your job. 

It's amazing how you can be micro-managed and given no guidance on proper operating procedures at the same time.

Pilots can get their hours and get out, but to everyone else, good luck dealing with the daily stress of a President, VP, and CEO who are more worried about where their next trip is than taking care of students and employees.

This has to be one of the worst companies I’ve ever worked for. I am a current employee and quitting soon because it’s a nightmare here.

Management is like a revolving door one day they are there the next they aren’t. 

Management is greedy for commissions they get for each flight that launches so they will pressure you to go. Recently we were called a bunch of Another word for cat because we didn’t fly when not worth it to student.

One of the assistant chief instructors (female) told a female student “Sometimes you just need to Bend over and take it, I’m sure you’ve done that before” because she did not want to take a checkride with an unfair examiner.

The company when I started was awesome, management had a head on their shoulders and was always willing to educate employees. Pay has never been the high point but flight time is. Over the last few years the company has gone down considerably. they've decimated middle management (Chiefs and Ops personnel). theye middle management's leadership has a high turn around as well as for line instructors. Some room for advancements but not paid well.

This company is so unprofessional. 
--Pay for CFIs is very low
--Operations Team has NO aviation experience
--They schedule everything MANUALLY 
--They schedule only one day in advance
--Had NUMEROUS incidents in the past year
--Culture--operations team is super immature, and act like they are still in HS




Management is incredibly unorganized and unprofessional. They treat the staff like they are temporary. The instructors are wonderful and put up with way more than they should have to. Students are wonderful, although since they accept everyone, there are a lot of students who struggle and get pushed through no matter how many times they fail exams or check rides. 

Management will never cease to tell you what you did wrong. Pilots have the biggest egos on the planet, so the instructors, students, and office workers will treat you like you're worthless if you're just a fueler. The job was 80% cleaning and taking out trash. Pay was pretty good though.

PRO TIP: Pilots, you ARE human. You are not God's gift to earth.

Business specialized in flight training for the pilots and commercial pilot licenses.  Aircraft refueling and ground handing of aircraft with an aircraft tug.  Line maintenance, oil changes, troubleshooting, and repair of aircraft airframe, powerplant and electrical systems.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Student coordinator 2 salaries reported	$57,500 per year
Accounting clerk 1 salary reported	$22.50 per hour
Flight instructor 3 salaries reported	$26.67 per hour
Instructor 1 salary reported	$26.00 per hour
Assistant operations manager 5 salaries reported	$65,000 per year

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