Originally Posted by
CaptainTeezy 
It will be a huge test to CFI in a C172 for 1500 hours. A test of skill and will.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Waah. BTDT, and then a few hundred more in twins. Remember most of those that came before you did just that...but then they went off to fly night freight for a few years before they got hired with 3000 hours at a commuter to fly a beech 1900.
Quoted for gospel...
Guys did it this way since the dawn of time. Kids these days...sheesh...
I HARDLY flew my tail off CFIing. Took some time off to go back to school, and once I went back to the CFI gig, found myself doing stagecheck pilot stuff, where I flew less than your average bear.
It STILL only took me 3 years to go from wet-CFI to commuter gig (which, BTW, required ATP mins), and that was in the middle of a recession. I learned a METRIC ton of information in that time, including how to run an aviation operation filled with recalcitrant, irritating, stubborn people (AKA pilots), evaluate students, how to get a new syllabus approved from scratch in a 141 op, deal with the FAA on a regular, professional basis, as well as countless other "skill sets".
So spare us all the "woe is me, I have to fly a new 172 with G1000" malarky. No one except your fellow millenial whiners wants to hear it. Man up and get it done.
Nu