On Mar 1, 2:48*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)

Have spent a lot of time in the back of 2-33s, have 3 diamonds and
really enjoy cross country flying.

Get enough of crowds at work so don't have much desire to go to a
contest, mostly self-launch/retrieve out of airports where there are
few or no other gliders flying.

I've known instructors that don't fly cross country that produced some
very good pilots. We have a lot of accidents in our sport, we should
make a priority of teaching basic airmanship before we send people off
on a cross country.

I don't mind instructing in the winter but having a full time job, a
small business, and other projects have caused me to not have any time
for instructing lately. We're rebuilding an old blanik to teach some
neighbor kids how to fly, hopefully it'll be ready by fall.

Jim