Flying instruction will never be a profession until commercial level - there simply isn't the margins in the costings while the GA fleet remains 25+ year old PA28s etc..

I wish we could kill the urban myth about hours-builders = poor instructors. The quality of instructor has everything to do with the quality of the FI course and leadership at the school/club (and by that I include standardisation) and little to do with what licence or experience the FI has got. I have flown with great brand new FIs with minimal hours and totally awful multi thousand hour BCPL career instructors.

Hello all,
Thanks for all the honest answers and a brief insight into a few of the trials and tribulations of FI.
I feel my way forward is the cpl rather than aptl course and exams and then cpl and FI.
I think blagger has a very good point in that the quality of instruction must in the end be down to the individual delivering it, which in turn, (in my case I hope I have got it right), comes from choice of FI course training provider. I must say that like him I have met some poor career instructors however the few hour building instructors that I have met have also given the impression that they are only there because they have to be and are killing time until they move on. That said they were good instructors, just in my opinion let down by the attitude.
I used to live in Cumbria mrmum but now live in the south so am better placed to access a greater number of schools.
Thanks again for all of your views chaps they have been most helpful.
Hope the delusional paranoia clears up soon bose:)

After many thousands of hours as an instructor and an examiner I have seen dozens of people like you come to the industry filled with aspirations and depart with broken dreams. Telling you how it us, is neither delusional or paranoid.

You have no idea of the world of pain you want to let yourself in for. Just don't come whimpering back with stories of you have spent a fortune and got little in return as I will return you back to the advice I have given you with an I told you so. There is no work out there. The market is shrinking and there many many unemployed FIs.

Who is delusional?