Well sd here's a reply to your arguement.
What about the turbo prop F/O who is building up hours hoping to get a jet job. Are you saying he should be paid a pittance?
Or the 737 driver building jet hours so he can get a seat in a 747. Is he also not hour building and therefore should only be paid 10k a year if he's lucky?
This whole business of working for F*** all is whats screwing up the industry and completely P***** people off (me included).
When I was a part time FI I earned £12 per tacho hour with absolutley zilch for ground briefings/waiting for the student to turn up/washing the aeroplane down at the end of the day. No flying=No pay!!!
I've even heard of one FI approaching a school for employment as an instructor and being told they would pay him NOTHING to instruct, yet he held a CPL!
Perhaps when you've been and spent £35K and 2 years of your life getting the tickets you might change your mind. You might also realise that working for FA doesn't pay the bills, doesn't fix your car when its bust and doesn't pay enough for your IR/ME/FI rating renewals.
Do you also not think that there should be a bit more reward for FI's given their considerable responsibilities?
And if the money grabbing owners of the flying clubs want to avoid the nightmare of their instructors leaving they can either pay them more and retain them, or try being better business people and planning ahead for the future.
There end of rant I feel better now!