Instrument Rating or Flight Instructor?
This is a question I was asked recently that I couldn't really answer:
If you had the money to either go through from CPL(H) and get the 300 hours to do the Instructor course or do the CPL(H) and then an Instrument rating; which would you do?
This is following the JAA route in the UK and hoping to work here in the end, ideally. The lad concerned is obviously trying to find the best way to get a job and build experience. However, I'm not up on the state of the job market, never mind what it will be like in a few months time. I know there are some Instructor jobs out there but I dont know how many for a FI(R). As for instrument rating jobs, I dont know of any others in the UK except in the North Sea and I dont know the state of things up there.
Anyway, what do you all reckon? I thought it may be of use to others out there too.
(Personally, if I had that kind of money to spend, I wouldn't be able to trust myself......)