Stoked27

That’s very fortunate of you to have an instructor who only charges for logged flight time and an individual CFI with a plane definitely isn’t a bad thing if the instructor is proper. Don’t expect that to be industry standard to only charge for logged time though and I definitely recommend to not think less of those who do charge. You have an instructor who is teaching ‘for the love of the game’ and not reliant on the income to put food on the table. Lucky you. Some students have a knack for turning a 2 hour lesson into 4 hours, so when you start chatting up an instructor at the local flying club before and after your lesson and see that they have a smile on their face, maybe (sometimes) they’re also wishing they had that time to prep for their next student, eat their lunch, use the restroom, etc while also trying to be polite and friendly because they want you to walk away with a positive experience.

Some instructors with 700 hours can be bad or amazing just as someone with 20,000 hours. Probably best not to assume hour-count or 737 experience directly correlates to who will transfer Cessna/Piper knowledge the best. When I went through training I had a fair mix of it all and can say sometimes it was the 700 hour instructor who knew how to relate to what I was learning since they just went through it or what retentive tricks certain DPEs pull on checkrides since they send so many students to that examiner. It sounds like right now you’re not learning to fly a 737, so anything less than a very experienced 737 instructor doesn’t directly correlate into a bad primary training instructor. Definitely a good person to know and keep in touch with, but I imagine one day you’ll come around to seeing how some days an instructor working a 12-hour day and only charging for the 2-3 hours logged hardly put gas in their car to get to work.