Fair points LFZ but how much post-graduate training is available for those newbie instructors?
I don't want to keep on about the mil system but a new FI would have to fly with a much more experienced FI every month for 6 -9 months whilst he amassed around 100 hours instruction.
Then he would undergo an upgrade assessment with a senior examiner. Thereafter he would be checked 6 monthly by his immediate boss and then annually by the senior examiners.
What processes are put in place to ensure safe and structured progression of FIs in the civilian world?
If all you know is what you learn on your FI course and then you have to make do without any further guidance, you could easily be making the same mistakes with students over and over again, teaching them incorrect techniques so a high- time FI could be no better than a low-time one, he would just have more hours.