ACP,
I am not getting to you or others about paying for ratings....I it is up to you if you want to pay or not...not me. I do have the money to pay, but I am not willing to pay for that. I am currently flying commercially and not instructing....yet I have never spent more than $1 more than was required to get a CPL/IR. If everyone continues to pay right after flight training there will be no job satisfaction for anyone! Soon it will escalate from paying for a TR to pay to fly the sectors as well!?!?!? no??
What if you had to pay as much as a passenger to sit up there? Would you pay for that? What if they required pilots to pay for the approach fees? Landing fees? Would that be ging to far?
Maybe to you....or others it would, but others after you would.....
Its just another snowball effect!
I am not trying to say what you did is wrong....and I am not trying to get back at Scroggs or anyone on here, I just want to point out that there really is no end to it!