mattpilot said:I agree with you FN FAL that instructors should be required to have more experience (edit: i myself suffered from it), but my point is, how would all these airline pilot wannabe's build time if they can't instruct? I'll pull a number out of my arse and say 80% of time building is via instructing for the low-time pilot. There are only so much night-freight jobs that will hire you with 250 hours, don't ya think?
That's why it will never happen, in a perfect world instructor's would all be the most experienced pilots with 2,000 plus hours but it is the way it is for a reason. (although I don't know what the reason is) I haven't even been instructing for a year but I would personally say that I have gotten better at my job every month i fly. It used to bug the heck out of me my first few months of instructing, everytime i finished a flight all I could think about was how or what i could have done differently to better help my students....it still bothers me actually. All you can do is keep improving the product you are offering. I've sent 3 up for their ppl and they all passed their first time so I must be doing something right. It would make me nervous if their was a rule at my local FSDO like there is in SC but the rule is in place for a reason....you never really should sign somebody off until they are truly ready, I've failed one ride before and I was a little disappointed in my instructor because I failed an item that was in the PTS that we never went over but I took most of the blame myself. If a student fails a ride multiple times they may have realized early on in their training that their instructor wasn't very good but a lot of times students aren't going to stand up and blame their instructor for their faults because they'll feel that people will just assume they are using somebody but themselves as an excuse.