Every airline I applied too considered instructor PIC more favorable than regular PIC time.
I hope this is true! I've been instructing for quite some time now. Let's hope the rest of the aviation industry likes instructional time.
I'm just saying, if you want an edge in the civilian world, being a FAIP is a good deal.
I guess my question here was about the person who joins the military to be a FAIP. Going around my current squadron recently I have run into a few SERGRADS as we call them. Not a one of them *joined* the military to instruct first tour. Everyone of them wanted to move onto a fleet squadron, but for some circumstance they were afforded the opportunity to stay and instruct. Sometimes it was a great deal because the waits for the RAG/FRS class might have been a year long! In 18 months - two of the former SERGRADS reported getting 700 hrs of turbine PIC time. Not bad eh?
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