That was my mistake I meant to say right seat, but i spent alot of my instructional career in the left. Ok, here we go again. That poor cfi with several thousand hours might not be able to start the engine when he first sits down, but with about 2 minutes of instruction and a checklist, the master of the learning process will be able to start your shiny CRJ and your 300 hour PFT'er is still asking the captain how to fly an approach. No offense to the 300 hour guys but I know of a couple of times I scared myself at 300 hrs, and that was clipping along at 80 knots in a skyhawk. If those guys out there in this situation don't at least feel a little humbled by their lack of knowledge, then their just plain arogant/stupid.
I have spent the last 3000 hours instructing, BY CHOICE! Oh but you ask did you have enough multi to get a job? About 1300 of it is PIC turbine multi. So the answer is YES! I took this path because I enjoyed it and found it very benefitial....also had some dilusions that I might actually get to work for a better company with more flight time. That aside I DIDN"T pay for training (Except ratings at 141 school) and I actually started my private about 7 months AFTER 9/11. So thinking that instructing is going to take too much of your life is untrue. Maybe if these people put as much into looking for a good instructors job as they did trying to circumvent the airlines hiring process they too might find themselves a job that payed more than 16 a year to start. Instructing might require long hours of not getting paid while on the ground but HELLO what do you think your gonna be doing after you park that RJ?
Well before I manage to get my blood pressure up over this use less debate again.