Originally posted by Ghostbear
Obviously, paid instructors would have to compete with free instructors, so they would pretty much have to develop a good reputation.
Not necessarily.
All they'd have to do is get to the newbies first... and expound upon the
many pleasures and benefits of paying for instruction with a "professional"
flight instructor, versus "settling" for "free" instruction with the non-professionals.
You think the "pros" wouldn't be slanting the "frees" off as giving inferior instruction?
A good slick salesman can brainwash the uninformed in short order.
Does it affect me? Probably not, as long as I'm not a member of some sellout
club who sets aside days or times for "paid instruction only", and those happen
to fall on my only offdays. So no, it probably never will affect me at all.
Just giving my $.02, that's all. (I know, I'm up to a dollar and a half by now)