Been watching this for a while now, and felt a compulsion to put my to bits in, earlier I suggested by nice to crash, crash then comes out with some ignorant rantings, and all hell breaks loose. I don’t thinks it’s very constructive to pprune at all.
Firstly lets look at things from a different perspective. What are you trying to achieve by becoming an instructor? A good safe student. Achieved by imparting a good clear knowledge, and suitable flying skills.
To give a PPL sufficient knowledge, surely it must be provided by a relative ‘expert’ to teach this. Not just someone else whose read Trevor Thom a while ago and had a fair amount of personal experience. Some form of formal training and testing can only achieve this. An entirely separate FI knowledge test is impractical and would be not far from the CPL (with all its useless nonsense). IMHO, the CPL minimum knowledge can only be a good thing.
People have made the valid pint that wannabie-airline pilots are only doing it for the hours, true, but most are good enough to realise where they are at that point in time and do a good job, sure the student is being used for hours, but if their a good instructor the student wont know it and there will be not difference. Besides they have shown themselves in a battery of test to be proficient and safe pilots. We all know the difference between mini-cabs and black taxis, so is it worth saving a few pounds getting someone with less credentials?
If I turn up at anyone’s Job, and just did it on Tuesday and Thursday for fun to pass the time, meaning you weren’t getting paid, you’d be pissed, you’ve work hard to achieve your position, and me, under trained and possibly unfocused barging in would be hard to swallow. Likewise I have worked hard to achieve my position in my chosen profession. All these people complaining ‘its to expensive’ ‘if I’d started earlier’ or ‘its always been my dream’. These aren’t valid reasons that give you the right to become a fully-fledged flying instructor. I’ve always wanted to be a racing driver, I cant afford a porche, and haven’t been go-carting since seven, because it was more than my pocket money, o woes me.
If you really want to pass on your knowledge for free and when suits you, why don’t you do something more constructive than rant away here. Try and form some sort of mentor or buddy scheme at your local club, share flights and try new things. You won’t be stepping on any ‘professionals’ toes and everyone should get more out of flying.
BTW, morse is no longer required in the exams, but is for flying.