In a perfect world flying schools would have a mix of experienced PPL instructors and retired high time commercial and military instructors. Each will bring a set of skills and experience that the others will not have and such a school would be the best of all worlds for someone to learn at.
It does appear to me that there is a group of low houred PPL's that are looking forward to the PPL FI as an opportunity to get paid to go flying as opposed to their present situation of them having to pay for an airplane.
There is nothing wrong with this and a person dedicated to instructing instead of using it only as a stepping stone to a "better" flying job can't help but be healthy for flying training.
However a PPL FI doesn't mean you just show up with your PPL and start the FI course. You have to show up with a high level of personal flying skills, hence my comment that for low houred PPL's it would be prudent to plan on having to pay for some dual instruction before the course starts in order to meet pass the initial flying assessment which will be performed before the actual flight instructor training starts.
Last edited by Big Pistons Forever; 15th Jun 2012 at 00:10.