John wrote:

While the ATP can cost a lot of money to obtain, a CFI is not the same.
I see ads for CFI training for 3000.00 That being said, I too agree
that CFI are way underpaid. I don't think that should be paid on the
scale of a lawyer or a plumber but rather on a teacher scale, somewhere
between 40-100k If the industry wants to attract qualified committed
people, they need to make the teachers pay something that they can live
on or else they will have the issues they have now where instructors are
just building hours to move on.

John

I have always felt that by simply raising the aeronautical experience
requirements to obtain a CFI to something more reasonable like 1000hrs
or even 500hrs would go a long way toward producing higher quality
CFIs. It would also put upward pressure on the salaries you'd have
to pay them. Whenever that time comes I may consider instructing again.