Whirly, it's not that I wasn't prepared to give the job its all, I was and still do, but it simply isn't financially worth it and I got fed up of being forced to do a shoody job because of the scheduling system that only allowed 1 1/2 hrs contact with a student when you need to do 1 hr of flying. it isn't possible to brief, debrief, check out the a/c properly in under 30 mins.
I forund that to be the most demoralising thing of all, the fact that I couldn't do the job as well as I wished because of unrealistic time constraints. I felt that the students were getting fleeced and I still do. This is why now I will only teach a max of 4 students in a day, so that I have a good amount of time with them and can go into the depth I feel is necessary.
I lose out because of this, as I only get paid for airborne time NOT contact time, but it allows me to feel that I have done the job properly.
So your sweeping statement,
If you don't like a job, you leave. If you stay, you do it wholeheartedly.
Is not realistic. I love the job, but I hate the conditions forced upon us and have taken moves to ensure that "my" students get value for money. Does that make me less dedicated because I won't teach full time any more?
As I said Whirly, You are talking about a subject you don't know much about, you are an instructor, but NOT in fixed wing and that is a very different world to Helis. How do I know that? I hold a CPL(H) as well as an ATPL(A)