This was what got a lot of peoples goats...
You wrote:
"I do agree that ,Flight Instructing is just a stepping stone up to" real" job.
There are fellows out there , who for some reason or other have failed to move up."
Not everyone sees instructing as the "bottom of the heap" when it comes to jobs, and I think you can see why so many people found this post insulting. Those of us who do it for a career take our work very seriously just as any other good teacher does. Not all driving instructors want to drive racing cars, not all physics teachers want to go to the moon...see what I mean? We are TEACHERS as well as pilots, two jobs in one. That doesn't make us "failures"
I don't pretend to know everything about the psyche of an airline pilot, so please don't pretend to know everything about how instructors think. Six months experience isn't a huge amount to go on. Try ten years, then make a judgement.
TTFN!
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