Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
Anyone who spends the money to get a CFI is ill-informed. Today there are more CFI's than there are students. You can wallow as an instructor for years or simply pay the money to ATP and get a real job now.
If you want to teach be a CFI. If you want to be an airline pilot then pay the man and become an airline pilot.
Times have changed. The old CFI route is a waste of time.
SkyHigh
You have got a lot to learn. Pay to get a job. How stupid is that?
Go to college, get a degree, get paid to instruct, and then go to pretty much any job you want. There are many ways to make good money as a CFI. You are not seeing the whole picture.
Or, just pay your way into a regional job at ATP and be stuck there at that level the rest of your life while the rest of us move up into higher careers.