Without this there would be a shortage of aeroplane instructors and reduced flow on into higher licensed instructing positions.
Is there a shortage of helicopter instructors? No. The helicopter instructors have, by definition, been out in the real world and are making the choice to come to instructing. It would certainly mean
less aeroplane instructors, but that does not equate to a shortage.
Many of the schools earn their bread and butter from the student to CPL to instructor to employee cycle.
And many schools earn their bread and butter from using their experienced staff to train students.
Requiring instructors to have real-world experience first would dramatically improve the quality of instructors, and therefore the quality of pilots coming out of the schools. If you already have a few hundred hours of charter experience, and then decided to instruct, that would only be because you actually wanted to do so, not because it was an easy way to "hour build" while living with mummy and daddy and not having to move to Kununurra.
Do you think someone who has got a 1000 plus hours up north, probably flying a twin or looking at a CIR would come back and fork out the money for an instructor rating and start off on reduced pay as a casual grade 3?
They would if they genuinely wanted to instruct. Youve described something quite similar to what I did before getting an instructor rating. One side effect youd find if all instructors were experienced pilots, is that instructors would no longer be willing to accept crappy pay and conditions in the hope of getting some hours - because getting hours would no longer be the aim of the game.
I cannot see
any reason why requiring instructors to have genuine experience first before instructing would negatively impact the industry.