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"Who the hell can afford to do 1000 hours before forking out for an Instructors rating and CPL???????? Probably not many!!!!"
Why should an instructor become and instructor?? If it is to build hours for his future job with an airline then he is a fruad and is not a "real instructor" and I would suggest that some do not give a damm about the sort of pilots they produce.
There will always be flying schools who will want young instructors to work for nothing so they pay peanuts and get monkeys. If instructing was a real job with a real salary then we would have real instructors and produce real pilots. There may be less schools but hopefully better ones.
Many flying clubs could encourage more retired ex comercial pilots to become instructors and work for a few pounds per hour this would help keep the cost down at the club trainning end.
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