Originally Posted by
morno
Please, for the sake of the industry, DON’T go and become a flying instructor for your first job. What valuable lessons could you possibly pass on apart from what’s in a textbook?
This is such a brain dead take.
A Jnr Gr3 isn't going to be out on the line teaching Multi IFR. They're teaching ab initio. Explain to me precisely what benefit flying a 737/320 around from ILS to ILS provides in teaching someone visual attitude flying, using the rudder and managing a piston engine? In my day as the managing G1 in my workplace, I saw all types come and go. From instructing as a first job to heavy jet captains returning to the industry. There is zero correlation in competence. It was always, always down to the attitude of the candidate. The absolute worst instructor was an ex-saab driver with 4 figures in turboprops, who could not be told. His students failed left right and centre until the school wised up and turfed him.
A new instructor has just done 200 hours of flying in the same category of aircraft they'll be training in. All the sequences theyll be instructing (as a Jnr G3) are ones they have intimately familiar with, and have been practicing non stop since the beginning of their training. They are perfectly capable of delivering the syllabus and helping their students excel. Are they going to be as good as a seasoned experienced instructor? Of course not, but they'll be a ****load better than some muppet Ex-Saab scrub who flunked out of RPT to the only job he could find.
To the thread OP, don't listen to this garbage. If you want to instruct, go for it. Just remember that if you view it as nothing more than a transient stop on the way to something bigger and shirk putting in the effort, you are robbing someone else of their aviation dream. Put in the work, its a rewarding job.