I instruct part time, and if I had lots of dosh, I'd still do that. But instead of doing other work and struggling to pay the bills, I'd leap in my new R44 Raven II to fly to the airfield a couple of days a week.
I love instructing - it's a great combination of flying and people skills, which suits me fine....part time. Fulltime it was becoming just another badly paid job...which was a shame.
I also learned a tremendous amount doing the CPL and FI courses, and instructing since then. I wouldn't like to have missed that.
So if I had the money I'd do exactly what I'm doing now, but fly everywhere as well, using the helicopter which would be waiting on the helipad outside my front door.
