wg100
Good, then I am very happy to take it all back. If you do some club flying then there is no reason you shouldn't make a decent instructor.
My experience was in taking over training of students who had been taught by an instructor who had been integrated straight to FI(R) then teaching. It was clear from the problems they had that the instructor did not know what PPL flying was, had no natural sense for the progress of the course or for the end result required. That is not something that can be taught, but is learned by being around a club and by flying in that environment.
By the way I would probably make a bad instructor too if I went straight back to it now. I'm too used to commercial aviation, line training of guys who could be expected to know the mechanics and to show rapid progress in the operations and procedures side I am teaching. I will have to do a bit of club flying before I try!