Originally Posted by
tailend
Don't even think about becoming an FI. Once you do your career will be dead. Non US airlines don't like instructors, the notion of hour building is long over. The big airlines are switching to MPL anyway which essentially limits instructing to PPL level training and the interesting stuff can only be done by multi-crew qualified instructors. The FI route to the cockpit is over.
Integrated is the only way now. Best.
Complete and utter twaddle
The demand for (good) FIs has never been greater, particularly at the MEIR level where pay, T&Cs, job satisfaction, work-life balance etc., is on a par and in some cases better than for newbie airline FOs. But don't take me word for it!
HW