Becoming an ATPL ground instructor
Recently started my CPL but unfortunately had to pull out due to a major financial `reality check.' While feeling a bit crap about this, a friend of mine suggested becoming an ATPL ground instructor - that way I could keep my foot in the aviation door and perhaps pick up the CPL at a later date. The same friend also told me that to become one of the above, you don't necessarily have to have loads of airline/flight crew experience. This is important, as I have loads of teaching experience (10 years teaching science-based subjects in higher education) but obviously very little flying experience. The questions I would ask therefore are:
1. What are the job opportunities and rates of pay like?
2. Is what my friend says about experience correct?
Thanks in advance for any help on this subject.
E_R_M