Well well......
This thread has not gone in the direction I thought it would.
For the record I enjoy instructing enormously and consider it my professional duty to give my student nothing but the best I can. This does not mean though that I am over the moon with the very low payscales (that is another subject in itself!).
Yes I and many others here are trying to build hours on our way to an airline job. I would be very happy to instruct as a career instructor but I can not afford to do so at the moment.
Regarding the matter of unpaid instruction this is clearly a very emotive subject. I do like WWW's suggestions though.
How about this for a radical thought, teach unpaid by all means but give the money you would have earned to the paid instructors! (I could live with that!)
Sunny side up dudes
JWF