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Old 8th Aug 2017, 03:37
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flite idol
 
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I could never understand the contempt so many had towards the concept of becoming a flight instructor. I did basic/commercial/instrument and multi instruction for a few thousand hours at the beginning of my career. I made life long friends doing it and I'm a firm believer that you never truly understand a discipline until you have to teach it, assuming you are doing it correctly. I have instructed all the way up to wide body training Captain and have to say the most enjoyable flying if my entire career was that early few thousand hours spent as a basic flight instructor. To the original poster...you only obtained your certificates because someone was willing to sit with you and teach you, hopefully patiently how to fly. If everyone thought being a CFI was not worth the return on investment then the whole process would go into a tail spin. Unless you have a chronic personality disorder you will enjoy it, give it some consideration.
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