My new job: flight instructor at East Coast Aero Club

As of today I am signed up as a flight instructor at one of Boston’s most active flight schools:  East Coast Aero Club (www.ecas.com).  I’ll be doing primary instruction in the Diamond Katana aircraft and perhaps some of the 1999 Piper Warriors (almost brand-new by flight school standards and equipped with GPS).  I’ll also be doing one- and two-week cross-country instrument training trips, mostly with folks who have their own airplanes.

8 thoughts on “My new job: flight instructor at East Coast Aero Club

  1. Congratulations on your new endeavours. Is this in addition to or lieu of being an MIT professor, if I may ask?

  2. Bud: Thanks. I’m putting the $14/hour into my EC120 helicopter fund.

    Ravi: I just teach one course every three semesters at MIT. I retired from full-time work in 2001.

  3. Now you will really begin to learn about flying. When I had to explain what and why, I discovered how much I didn’t fully understand.

  4. Welcome to the ranks of those who are richly compensated (but not in dollars). I have a lot of respect for those who provide primary flight training, it was a lot more challenging than I anticipated. These days I mainly teach G1000, SR20/22, tailwheel, and aerobatics, and in an odd way I almost think it is easier than the primary training schtick.

  5. Congratulations, Philip! I always knew you could one day work yourself past your roots as a computer programmer and MIT graduate.

  6. Hello sir!

    Could you let me know if someone with EC120 instructor lisence would like to travel to China train our pilots?

    We now operate 1 ec120 and another coming soon.

    Hawk Yang
    Qingdao helicopter Co.,ltd, China

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