On Mar 1, 5:48*pm, glider wrote:
*Just for fun, I wonder how many CFI-G types have Gold Badges with
Diamonds? How many instructors compete?
*I would think that an active instructor is not the same chap that
goes for long flights or gets involved with competition. I'll bet it
takes a different mind-set to want to instruct.
GA
(CFI-G, seldom)

About 95% of my training (in the 80's) came from active competition
pilots with diamond badges. Wouldn't trade that away for a million
bucks. I learned key things from every single one of them that I use
to this day.

-Evan Ludeman / T8