Hmmmm... I'm giving this an awful lot of extra thought now.
I am currently 43 so any chance of a further career in aviation, outside of instructing, is I would have thought, pretty much out of reach. However instructing is what I really want to do...
The chances of me going on to get an IR are pretty non existent I would have thought and whilst the added flexibility that the ATPL's might give me would be nice I think that the reality would be that I would never gain the full benefit of the qualification...
Besides which...
the CPL is much easier to learn.
sounds very attractive to me!!
All advice gratefully received!