Originally Posted by
Flying Bear
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...”
I don’t disagree with your sentiment, but the reality shows that the blind leading the blind method does work as evidenced by just about every country pumping out pilots this way.