Originally Posted by
block30
I'll tell you what, I hear lots of complaining that the cross country requirement is too onerous very frequently. To be honest, that is hard for me to relate to, because I had 500XC pretty easily by 1,500 hours. Besides having the latitude to take students beyond 50 NM, I flew a lot on my own dime. Even as a poor CFI I still rented for a number of reasons, not least of which was to get actual IMC time on IFR cross countries. A pitfall I saw with the other CFIs was that if they rented, it was to take friends or girls on joy rides. If you are going to do that, make a bonafide XC.
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So you are just advocating that CFI's making $20k per year, that are likely still paying off student loans, should have to go buy even more flight time to meet ATP mins??
I'm glad it worked out for you, but it certainly isn't an option for me or many of other CFI's I know.