Originally Posted by
R0GER BALL
Always do anything to separate yourself from the crowd. What’s a couple more thousand. Don’t stop there, however. There was a time where you needed to be a community volunteer to become a 121 pilot. Volunteer. Become a coach. Hell, get elected to city council.
Be different. Don’t just be a 1500/cfi.
This has been such an odd time where guys who enjoyed the luxury of solid aviation growth to accumulate experience, are turning around and saying to guys who are “just 1500 hour CFIs” to work harder, like they didn’t just get stuck in an awful flash crash of the industry. “Be different like me where as I was born before you and grew my career before things went sideways”. I agree, anyone who didn’t use the last 10 months to better themselves in any way is an idiot. Though “just a CFI” is also idiot inferior-complex talk. Most guys who poop on CFIs I find weren’t good enough to become one themselves.