Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes

What I don't get with this whole thing is that these guys want to be air transport pilots working for a commercial operator/carrier. I'm not sure if they realize this, but one of the duties of an ATP pilot is to instruct. When you sit in that left seat, you are expected to teach the guy in the right. Sure, everyone is not a "natural" teacher out of the box, but not wanting to do the CFI route because you "can't teach" means you need to give up the entire ATP and airline pilot gig too. I can understand not doing it for other reasons, but "teaching" goes hand in hand with being a pilot. Very few professional pilot jobs out there have zero "teaching" and most of those are the type that you don't spend a career at (unless you messed up somewhere along the way).