About what Jester Icarus suggests:
It is rare -but I know a couple of them-, some Airlines Instructors, aviation passionated, continue some activities in Flying Club in plus of their Airline activity. Yes if you are very lucky such a guy can train you and bring you to the required level.
Other Flight Instructors, with no Airlines experience and particularly no Ab Initio Cadet training experience, and not involved in a real professional FTO, have only a vague idea of the required standard. Beware of the Aeroclub or Airport Bar "aficionados".... they talk heavily but the truth is often not there....
I recommand strongly to be trained by proper professionals and not "amateurs".
For your information, in our professional FTO, during the recruitment procedure, we reject a majority of Instructor CVs after analysing their experience and the way they have gotten it. If they pass this first scrutinising phase, at the arrival in our FTO, they will have to face a question test, a simulator check. If they are declared OK, then they will have a "Standardisation" training (Around 10 days).
This kind of evaluation/procedure is typical of what is done in the best FTOs worldwide, and yes we can ensure that our cadets are going to be trained properly.
The Groundies are selected on reference through our relational network, then they will be checked: they have to be able to teach at least 3 topics at the JAR level and must be highly IT literate because they have to produce and update their training supports.
Last edited by Passenger 07; 30th Mar 2008 at 09:57.