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I don't want to "pinch" anyone's job when I come back to instructing, rather I was hoping to employ a few more of the genuine teachers in the world to teach flying, and including perhaps those who actually don't want to fly at all but are quite happy to teach ground school. eg. engineers to teach Air Tech, ex navigators to teach navigation. etc. If you see it as having a job 'pinched' then I disagree with the opinion that the world owes anyone a job. Are you deliberately trying to get rid of anyone with any experience doing the work?
And Kermit 180 - you want some positives. Here's one, I was flying a bunch of doctors and a med student the other day and the weather was fine and the sea was blue and the sky was also blue but with some cirrus waaaaay up there for perspective and the hills were vivid green and he looked at me sitting there in the cruise and said "you've got the best job in the world". And I said, "yeah, the best bit is when I teach someone well enough that they can enjoy it on their own, then they come back and tell me about it, again and again and again".
