Originally Posted by
marcal
Neither does the risk of you or a student doing something dumb in a 172 for $40/hr.
This career is not worth jeopardizing to be a CFI.
it’s pretty unlikely that your ATP will be pulled for anything a student does. We risk our life/careers for all kinds of things: waterskiing on a holiday weekend, riding a motorcycle, flying an RV4, etc.. if someone gets fulfillment from doing GA things, more power to them