Rotary instructors pay
Kissmysquirrel you were lucky.
When I first started down at t' airfield, I had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed. I had to lick aircraft clean wit' tongue and work fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out for sixpence a week, pay the helicopter owner for permission to fly and after completing 50 trial lessons the CFI would thrash us wi' his belt .
Try and tell young instructors of today that... they won't believe you!