Originally Posted by
FloridaGator
Military Instructors are typically only 18 months removed from their first flight as a student (200 hours TT) and are building thier own careers... not necessarily gifted and talented educators.
In my squadron, there are 40 active duty IPs, and 5 of them are "18 months removed from their first flight as a student."
The rest have thousands of hours of operational flying. There are more O-4s and O-5s that there are Captains, and the old farts outnumber the FAIPs greater than 4-to-1.