Wait time on the ground!?

[shimmydampner]

ALLEGEDLY!
You can't prove anything.

[freesky]

I am a bad person to drag into the instructor debate because I do not think anyone with less than a few thousand hours is worthy of an instructor rating.

This is the best quote I have seen for a long time. I totally aggree on this one. The system is upside down. Instructor ratings should be given after at least 1000 hours mark. I am roughing it up, flying as a bush pilot in Africa, and I am still learning so much. I would love to instruct, although I wouldn't dare pretend to be a fine instructor straight out of flight school myself. This is ridiculous thinking to begin with...

In this regard, I don't see getting a ramp job to get a chance to fly under supervision of a more experience pilot something that lacks of honor. I think the pilot with 250hrs that instructs new pilots to build hours is a scam and contributes to generate a weak vicious circle generation of new pilots. Transport Canada should change the requirements to become a Flight Instructor.

[Cat Driver]

Transport Canada should change the requirements to become a Flight Instructor.

That will never happen because they have complete control over the new low time instructors who live in fear of TC stepping on them for not following the TC doctrine.

Back when I owned a flight school I asked the TC guy in charge of flight training what I would have to do to renew my flight instructor rating, he asked me how long it had been expired and I said about 25 years.

He said it would be harder for me to renew than for a new instructor to get one because I had been flying to long and would have to unlearn my pre. conceived ideas about flying.

These F'n idiots don't want experienced pilots teaching because they will not be able to intimidate them.