atcea.com your career mirrors mine, except it was 37 years in ATC as controller, Training Officer, Supervisor and System Developer but only m.e./ifr I'm afraid.
my experience showed that the best Controllers did not neccessarilly make the best instructors, nor the best instructors the best controllers.
Let's get back to the subject as the mods are a bit touchy recently
Here since before Pontius was a Pilot or Mortus a Rigger