Aren't the big commercial schools meant to be strapped for instructors at the moment?
Ref the Flyer article. You might find some who budget for an FI(R) as part of their modular training as a hedge against not getting a job immediately afterwards. That's what I've did. There are quite a number of part-time instructors who aren't interested in following through to an airline job. The bit where I think it is going to tell is where you have schools have one or two full-time, 700hr-route pilots, backed up by part-timers. The schools will miss the full-timers, or will just have to pay them better money.
[This message has been edited by climbs like a dog (edited 10 August 1999).]
[This message has been edited by climbs like a dog (edited 10 August 1999).]