I have also been in the instructing game for over 10 years and can recommmend it as a career path, you can make a reasonable salary once you gain some experience, start with PPL and its reasonably easy to add the night rating and IMC, bear in mind that others will leave after a short while and if you remain at he wheel then you will soon become an 'experienced instructor', I suggest then you aim to aquire the CPL and if possible the more difficult to attain FIC rating to enable you to earn real dosh, I left my real job a long time ago and have no regrets, I only have to gaze down at all the suckers commuting to the city to remember why I am still up here. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">