I will soon be a FI(R). I will also be a PPL . I have a decent day job which makes me a higher rate tax payer which makes going for the CPL an expense I dont want or need. I am instructing not for the money but for the pleasure it will give me in being an efficent and effective instructor.
Clearing the equivilent of £7 a lesson will in no way payback the cost of the instructors course and the atpl exams so why would I want to waste any more on a CPL?
I am sorry if it pis*s' off some of you but my investment was in my hobby. I dont need the CPL for what I want to do.
As to the suggestion that having a CPL proves something - well in my case it would mean I have more money than sense. Besides which I have an FAA Commercial so I could do the CPL if I chose to do so. I object to paying £1000+ for a flight test.