Originally Posted by
LeoSV
And being a CFI teaches you alot of things that you don't learn from being a student. If you gain 700 hrs being a CFI, you will be more experienced than most of these knuckle heads in the right seat of the regionals nowadays. But with the way you sound, you would be a terrible CFI, just like you said. just go crop dust for a while. you will earn the same that you do digging ditches and you will build some time.
Definately think he shouldn't be a CFI. The crop duster remark ("you will earn the same as digging ditches") is innaccurate. Crop dusters are pretty well paid, and I think there is a mis-informed notion that they are not skilled. In fact, I would out the pure flying skills of a crop duster against that of airline pilots - they absolutely know how to fly - and actually manipulate the controls of an aircraft to make it do what they want, as opposed to monitoring an auto-pilot.