"500 hours p1 requirement to instruct". Never heard anything so rediculous in my life. This proposal would do more harm to the industry.
Well seen as though most instructors are fATPL holders using it as a method to build hours (please do not tell me people shouldn't use instructing as just as a method to build hours, because in the UK there aren't many other options) , once you introduce that rule hardly anyone is going to bother. Besides hour builders have provided the flight training industry with cheap labour for years.
Past obtaining the fATPL, another 400 hours p1 prior to the instructors rating, well at 40 pounds an hour (cheapest overseas rate for hour building), thats another 16000 for hour building, plus 5000 for the FIC course, now signing up for Eagle Jet starts to look like a better deal.
Remember in the CAA days there was a time where a PPL holder with 200 hours p1 was allowed to obtain an AFI rating without any additional exams, were things any less safe back then than they are now?
Last edited by portsharbourflyer; 1st Apr 2006 at 02:02.