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Old 29th October 1999 | 09:49
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Charlie Foxtrot India
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JJ mate, I'm sorry to tell you that you are not the reason I closed the thread.
Rmember this one? What you wrote was very mild compared to this.

"Anyone that would seriously consider instructing as a career, rather than want to move on to 737's et al, must have rocks in his head. The problem with being a long term instructor is that inevitably you get jaded, irritable and pedantic. You forget that the poor student is paying your salary. He becomes just another tiresome idiot that cannot understand what you are trying to teach him.
Would you want to be a driving instructor from the time you are 19 to age 60 or more? Of course not. Flying instruction (once you get over the novelty of it, which is about one year) is not much different.
If you like to fly aeroplanes but for some reason you do not have the money, ability, natural drive or you are saddled with wife and kids and a mortgage, at too early in your age,then instructing as a career will give you hours in the log book - but not much money. There is a limit to how much you can honestly enjoy the RH seat of a Cessna 150 for the rest of your life.
There are many fine instructors around, some very young, some oldish. Very very few would not give their eye teeth to see a beautiful sunset from the left or right seat of a big jet.. But instructing as a chosen career? No way, unless you have no other options."

This is not an "opinion" or "point of view" but a load of cobblers written purely to offend the readers of this forum. Remember the big red letters on the bottom of the page.....and note that the one who wrote it is not complaining about "freedom of speach(sic)"

Re the padlocks, they arrive when the topic becomes irrelevant or offensive. It's only happened once before on this forum, not a bad record compared to some of the others.

Have a nice day.


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