I agree. Other than building time for a 121 job, I took the tour through flight school to learn how to instruct aerobatics. I can't wait to teach that stuff to my kids; someday - god willing.

On a different note, I don't know if this was covered in earlier posts. I was following this issue more closely before I separated last year. I believe there is a stipulation in the requirements that the Military IP would have to have passed a service approved instructor course, i.e. a CNATRA FITU or HITU for the naval aviators out there. I'm sure the AF and Army have something similar. Correct me if I am wrong, but this terminology would seem to exclude the "fleet" airframe IPs from being eligible.

From what I remember, the training command skippers endorsed the concept when the request for input came through Corpus last year. Last I heard was that something might becoming this fall. No check flight but, you would have to pass two exams for the CFI and CFII stamps.