Originally Posted by
flyauskiwi
That is one weird thing about this industry. How can someone barely qualified be the right person to teach a person from scratch? As a first-gen pilot, I find myself always explaining to friends/family that the industry is backwards. As pilots, first we learn, then we teach, then we do. Everywhere else, it’s learn, do, teach.
Surely this guy is more proficient at instructing than a 250 hour TT Pilot.
The problem is cost. Students either can’t afford, or don’t want, to pay for experience. Experience can’t afford to, or doesn’t want to, work for peanuts.
OTOH retirees with prior airline or military instruction time can usually afford to, and may want to, teach in GA, but some of us are unwilling to jump through all the CASA hoops for the privilege.