Qualified, yes CPLgroundschool and all.
Unpaid? It could be argues it is not good sence to have unpaid instructors. wages are a realivly small proportion of the flight for the operator. would the ~doing it for the love~ be easily persuaded to fly when they didn't really want to? I doubt it. they'd cherrypick the work at the weekends, possibly not even sticking with a studnet throughout their coarse and leave the full time ~doing it for a job~ FI's to look for scraps when the 'whenevers' go to THEIR source of income.
Result.
Weekend FI, not as current as the day-in-day-out FI's. training weekend pilots to bash the circuit as it can only be bashed on a weekend. Unhappy studnets that their instructor had to pull out because of something more pressing. low moral instructors not getting a continuity of work, and f~cking of to a school that accepts if you want total quality coverage, with FOCUSED workers, taking the low cost option may not be best.
full time flying instructors do it best, 'cause its their job. not their pastime
stealling candies from babies springs to mind. As I've said before, if your in a cushy job, love flying, add to the club, arrange fly-ins/outs, buddy lists, mentorships. not take away a 'profsionals' job.
FYI, I had a ~whenever~ once, came along, usuall getting to know each others patter flight, differnt-way this, different-way that. okay flight... never saw him again. not bad, just not as effective a lesson if I had a full time instructor.
[This message has been edited by little red train (edited 23 May 2001).]