Originally Posted by
4runner
Flight instructing is a fantastic way of achieving experience. You’re essentially a Captain early in your career, you actually practice the knowledge that you learned, you learn to work with a variety of personalities in the cockpit, you learn leadership and decision making and time management skills. It’s too bad that Europe ruined GA, but it’s your bed, you lay in it. I’ve flown with 755 hour P2F cadets. They didn’t pay their dues through instructing, they didn’t interview for their “job” and they have a sense of accomplishment for accomplishing nothing that was earned.
“Didn’t pay their dues”?
“Didn’t interview for the job”?
”Accomplished nothing”?
What a load of it. Seriously you Americans have zero clue about how aviation works outside of your borders don’t you? You’re probably shocked that in the other 200+ countries in the world aircraft get off ground without US pilots behind the controls.
Having experienced both, I’ll take a thoroughly vetted, well trained Euro style ab initio pilot any day over a 1500hr US style wonder who’s “experience” is watching amateurs do circuits in CAVOK weather and has had no proper screening or training for an airline job.