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Originally Posted by etflies  Please, PLEASE do not instruct to put hours in your logbook. You would be wasting your student's, and your own time. |
I disagree with that. I instructed to put hours into my logbook and earn a living, but I also enjoyed it, took it very seriously, and was 100% committed to the job.
Let's face it, most flight instructors are time builders... With few exceptions, flight instruction is a stepping stone job to other careers in aviation. The problem (IMHO) is when people are flight instructing ONLY to put hours in their logbook, and don't really care for instructing. That is not good, and is extremely unfair to the student. Fortunately (for students) there are a lot of choices available for CFIs, so if they get some schmuck they can easily get somebody to replace him/her in a short amount of time. That wasn't necessarily true a couple of years ago though.