Originally Posted by
Checkboard
In what way are instructors not pilots?
There is always this suggestion that instructors are too much "by the book", that they have no sense of "commercial reality". This implies that they are too "careful and slow" in normal opertions and don't accept the "requirements of the real word". This I assume meaning: carrying defects without writing them up, flying overweight and ignoring flight & duty limits.
Then elswhere you will find posts about dodgy GA operators, paying nothing and "forcing" pilots to fly overweight, with defects and out of F&D limits....
Checkboard, that’s not at all what I was inferring! I am a proud Flight Instructor and have built my career on developing pilots - and have a diversity of experience in doing so.
My point was not to differentiate between pilots and instructors being as you suggest - but to identify that the first job should be as just a pilot. Consolidate and concentrate on your new skill, before trying to teach it.
In the words of my mentor “How can one possibly hope to teach a skill that they have not yet themselves mastered...”