Or maybe they'd just spent £25k+ getting CPL and ME/IR and needed to work, pay off some debts/bills and save before starting the FIC.
Er no if they were in that position they would have done CPL first then FIC then waited for the IR.
And daddy din't pay for mine either even although I did CPL/IR and FIC all together over 3 months.
Then started work as a FI the day my license landed on the flying school door mat after being interview while I was completing the FIC. I had been in the school for a week prior to that waiting for the license to arrive. Then post came at 9:30 student had already been briefed and I was up in the air doing S&L part II within 20 mins of the license being signed. I did 6 hours in the air that day which continued over my full time FI career of 14 months of 1000 hours of instructing. The next three restricted instructors were the same but they hadn't done the IR and did it prior to leaving to the airlines. All of us are now Airline Captains.