Grade One Instructors (OZ)

[groundwhat]

Are there many Ozzy ppruners who hold this Rating and did it help you at all with employment and are you still instructing, if not how did you move on to another job do employers look at this as a good rating for pilots to have. Thanks in advance

[800]

Some people will always only see this rating as hour building, which is true to some extent, but then again all flying is hour building.

Overall it will increase your abilities, understanding and airmanship, probably without you even realising it (in same cases).

It is not everyone that can impart information professionally where another will benifit so profoundly.

This will eventually probably, if you choose that path, lead to roles in Training and CHecking.

All the Grade ones I know are now working as line pilots and/or conducting Training and Checking for the company's they work for.

It is a shame that so many of these good pilots are not in a position to conduct training for ab-initio students. I think this thread has been raised a number of times.

If you have a twinge to do it, then do it. You will not regret it in years to come. Warning though: before handing over any money to any school make sure you can procure enough part or full time work to at least obtain the minimum hours required to work unsupervised for a school. You may find it hard to find Schools to take on instructors below these hours.

Check ou the CAO's for all the info.

Good luck. Enjoy

[the coyote]

I am glad I have done it. It was offered to me by my present employer at the time. No longer doing it and in the offshore game now.

There is no doubt it elevates your skills, knowledge and understanding and makes you think a lot more about your flying. I have done BFR's for pilots with gazillions of hours, yet you ask them about retreating blade stall for example and they have no idea of the causes, symptoms, and/or correct recovery action...it makes you wonder.

There is also no doubt that abinitio instructing can be a risky and unexpected business, every instructor has had close calls that makes them also wonder why they do it....:E

[groundwhat]

Im already a Grade one Instructor but am looking at moving on to some thing new as to what i am still deciding,just seem to be stuck in a rutt at the moment instructing.