Originally Posted by
k1600gt
Thanks for the advice. I'm only 39 so I still have a long career ahead of me and I want to do it right. I have also been looking at other ways to build hours other than being a CFI at a pilot mill. Some of them look pretty uncoventional but also a lot of fun.
As an airline captain, I think being a CFI is essential for airline preparation, because it puts you in an environment of responsibility, decision making, and use of crew resource management--all necessary in the airline environment, that said doing OTHER things besides CFI is important too. I can tell you, that I know pretty quickly when I have flown with someone who has instructed before and someone who hasn't.