Originally Posted by
The Dominican
You don't know this person; he actually did a pretty good job teaching ground school, and it is fortunate that he is still doing ground school on a part time basis because he is a pretty sharp kid with a bright future ahead of him. In top of that, he is as nice a person as it gets. He doesn't deserve that comment.
I'm usually pretty generous with lower time folks, but they need to come into the industry in the place where they can do the most good. Most classroom instruction is defined in training manuals. Indoc usually consists of regurgitating the manuals at a class with a little bit of context and question-fielding. If that's what he was doing, it's great experience for a lower time pilot with an airline career in his mind. If he was teaching systems, etc. then there's more room for experience and critical context to be missed.
Having a very inexperienced instructor teaching class has some negatives. For example, it tells the classroom that the company doesn't take the material seriously. So it is noteworthy that they have such a low time instructor. That interest is not reflective of him or our opinions of him, though.
Glad he's moved on. Hope he can buy and sell the whole place in a few years.