Scudrunners

So I ask why would anyone put up with so much shit -- only answer I can come up with is that does not want to leave the bright lights of home -- sweating your balls off in a pilot wantabe program at Buffalo would be better than that by far ------

It's a sorry statement on aviation -- I am of the belief that initial instructor qualifications are set too low and that instructing should not be a way of building time -- I know that is an idealist way of looking at it but it makes no sense to me to have someone with so little experience teaching others -- 

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[quote]initial instructor qualifications are set too low ...
instructing should not be a way of building time[/quote]

If 1000TT was required for an instructor rating:

1) students would get better instruction
2) CPLs would stop using instruction to pad their logbook
3) instructors wouldn't be taken advantage of, like this

Too simple, I know.

FWIW I had 2500TT and an ATP when I did
my initial class 1 instructor rating, many moons
ago, and I had a reasonable amount of experience
outside the circuit (surface aerobatics, multi-IFR
in cloud, etc).

The other question I have is at what point does the bull lift his tail --  ;D and what exactly is that guy is doing with the stick -- ok -- 2 questions -- LMFAOOOOO

Well  -- like I said in an "ideal world" -- my generation was taught by "full time" instructors -- moved back to instructing after other flying jobs such as military or bush and a few had only ever been instructors and would always be employed as such -- time marches on and things change -- not to live in the past but in some areas quality has degraded rather than improve.