Originally Posted by
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The argument that you shouldn't get your CFI ratings because of the high failure rate is a weak one.
By the time you get to the airlines. you'll have instructed for at least a couple of years. By then you've hopefully signed off quite a few students and hopefully have a high student pass rate.
The airlines understand that the initial CFI ratings have the highest failure rates so they won't hold that against applicants. Again, if you can explain why you busted the ride, and what you learned from the experience, along with your student pass rate, you should be ok.
Instructing is an invaluable experience, you'll learn so much from it. Making you a more well-rounded pilot, especially the CFII.
Once everything starts to open up again and student loads increase, instructing will be one of the few ways to build hours. Other options such as pipeline patrol and aerial survey may mean relocating to undesirable locations.
Like the above alluded to if you get your CFI definitely go for your CFII. Being able to instruct instrument kept my IFR skills sharp for the year I instructed. It was actually a pretty easy rating to get, especially if you were smart and took your Instrument instructor written the same time you took your instrument written. It pulls from the same question bank except there are a few extra questions on the instructor side.