New CFI

I couldn't disagree more. When I got my PPSEL I had two instructors one with
grey hair and one with very little. They were both great instructors. Over
the years I've flown with many other instructors old and young and never saw
any correlation between age and instruction skill. On the On the other hand
when I got my PP R-H I had a twenty one year old kid from Germany who was
over here building hours. He was without a doubt the best instructor I've
ever flown with. He was a much better instructor than his boss who had x000
hours flying medivac and his boss would agree.

Over the years I've flown with many other instructors old and young and good
and bad never saw any correlation between age and instruction skill. The
young ones that were below average were usually that way because of lack of
experience. The older ones who were below average were that way because they
were so set in their ways and wouldn't change with a gun to their head.
Experience can be earned but asshole goes all the way to the bone.

The worst instructor I ever had was probably the best pilot but he couldn't
teach worth a crap.


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If a CFI has hair and it isn't grey, keep looking.

Yah, I know, that's an unsupportable generalization. Somewhere
out there, along with Bigfoot and Nessie, there's a 20-something
with 252 hours who can do a great job on teaching you to fly. But
to get all my metaphores hopelessly confused, you'll have to kiss
a lot of frogs before the genie pops out of that particular lamp.

Find an older guy, preferably one who teaches as a hobby or as a
retirement project. Unless you really do live out in Bigfoot country,
it's all but certain that there is someone like that at some airfield
you can easily get to. It'll just take some legwork to find the right
match.

Nothing said here should be taken to mean that ALL old guys are good
instructors. Odds are, though, someone who has seen it all over the
course of decades knows more and is better at communicating it than
is the archetypal condescending punk who thinks he's on his way to a
fabulous airline career, once his days of suffering through the likes
of you are put paid.