Reluctant737,
No need to shoot the messenger, but no offence taken anyway. I'm far too thick-skinned.
I don't agree that an FI Rating is worthless, but simply passed on the advice from a few Captains I know. Interestingly, one of them is a line training Captain at an Airline prominently mentioned on this thread...
What I didn't point out is that my other contacts within the industry include many FOs and FIs and they all reckon an FI rating is valuable. However, from what they've told me, from what my FTO told me, and from what I've read on here, FI jobs are very hard to come by right now.
If you knew me you'd realise that I am in no way like those who send off thousands of CVs willy-nilly and crawl into a hole when they don't receive a response.
You may well bump into me hiding in a bush outside your Company's office waiting for the Chief Pilot to pass by...
