hey hillerbee dont get excited about matey le singe, his MO is to kid you that he is an incompetent amateur
to answer the question, took me 6 months to do some proper instructing after getting PPL instructor rating, took another 2 years to get the CPL (those darned study books were quite thick) did some charter straight away after that, but took another year to get north sea job, and thank god a proper salary, being brassic all the time for 3 years was v.dull