Originally Posted by
ncflyer1027
1.) I have 3 check ride failures plus one stage check failure, I don't want to keep on taking these for the rest of my life.
2.) I do not want to be a flight instructor to get hours.
3.) Moving to base does not sound appealing and commuting to work seems like it makes QOL terrible.
4.) I want to get married and start a family someday and I don't want to be gone from home all the time.
5.) I don't enjoy flying, I'm not sure if I ever did, I just kinda did it since my parents bought me flight lessons back in high school. I have always dread going to the airport and stressed about whether or not I will perform well that day and make my instructor satisfied.
6.) Continuing taking flying lessons will keep me in college longer and thus taking out more student loans.
I always find this one to be a little interesting. Airlines, especially the ones that people want to work for, hire future captains-as in SICs they think can perform as PICs in the future, which means someone that can teach and mentor an SIC to be the PIC. Working in a crew environment, you need and use a lot of the skills that you being a CFI builds. So when someone says they don't want to be a CFI, don't want to have to deal with students, be patient, and so on, it doesn't bode well for a crew environment pilot job IMO. That doesn't mean everyone needs 5000 hours of instructing, it doesn't even mean everyone *needs* to be an instructor, just that sometimes the comments about why people don't want to be instructors are sometimes puzzling to me, because they seem to be contrary to the ultimate goal.