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Old 27th February 2011 | 22:04
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SNS3Guppy
 
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I guess an instructor would have acquired substantial experience in their own private flying before moving onto teaching.
Why? Since when has that ever been a pre-requisite?

Would you much rather have an instructor with considerable time as a private pilot, or one with thousands of hours of flight experience in as wide a variety of flying backgrounds as possible?

I'm kinda wondering why some instructors don't seem to have any scenic routes or suggested places that they like and recommend other people flying to?
You're not looking for a flight instructor. You're looking for a tour guide. Try a travel agency.

A flight instructor exists to help improve your airmanship, to assist you in achieving pilot certification, to help you read an aeronautical chart, to give your recurrent and advanced training, to teach you to fly. Not so much to tell you where the best tourist spots are. You can probably figure that out on your own.

As for why an instructor might be boring; there are instructors, and there are teachers. Seek teachers.

Instructors administer a syllabus. Teachers teach. The instructor does only the former. The teacher can do both, but more importantly, doesn't teach the bland world of the syllabus, but teaches you.
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