Just thought I would chip in again
In every other area that has instructors, the instructors have to have done the time in the field before they can teach. Teaching is the passing on of experiance and how has a low hours instructor gaiend this experiance?
I am suprised people consider an hour building FI's experience so unworthy. An ex-modular student with an FI(A) may have 'only' 275+ or so hours but those hours have been built in an extremely structured and pressurised environment. It isn't easy or simple flying. The P1 time is crammed into a pretty compressed period (so you take the best marginal weather you can get away with), the training is pretty expensive and difficult so there exists pressure applied both internally and externally. The flying skills are pretty well honed well beyond the level of a PPL, their judgement has been tested. All in all an ATPLs lot is a difficult one.
Those 275+ hours probably equate to double that for an average PPLer and possibly more. Hardly insignificant or inexperienced.
HWD.