Originally Posted by
Baradium
An ATP gives you a license to give flight instruction by the way.
You must've been one sad student to have taken 250 hours to learn how to start an airplane.
In a dual pilot crew in a well equipped aircraft is probobly one of the best ways to gain experience. You have a captain with a ton of time to help you learn the ropes and guide you through learning. So at 250 time you are experienced enough to train others but not to fly as sic with someone with a lot more experience? That doesn't even make sense.
The difference is that a 250 hour CFI is in an airplane that a lot less can go wrong in. And when something does go wrong, it is easier to recover from and there is a lot less at stake. Do you know many 250 hour CFIs who go picking their way through a line of thunderstorms just to go shoot a Cat II approach to mins? So yes, at 250 hours you are experienced enough to go train someone how to do steep turns and stop and goes because when you F%$K UP in a 172 there is a lot less at stake than when you F%$K UP in a 50,000lb jet with 50 paying mothers, fathers, sons and daughters in the back.