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So, let's talk about how many times in that video he mentions a "cafeteria" as one of the primary benefits for instructing there.

Don't forget there are also instructor-only (e.g. sim and classroom) jobs in the airline and corporate world that have good compensation and quality of life, too, which would love to have your experience.

With respect to the guy in the video, we all have to remember different strokes for different folks. We see that even in this here thread. What is considered good work for some isn't that for others. As mentioned, the things Jon mentioned in his "why I quit the airlines" video were factors...

Precisely, yes.

What a lot of people don't get, though, is that boring is good. Boring means that everything is safe and I get to go home to mom 'n' the kids, cash that paycheck, and enjoy the quality of life the job provides access to.

I'm the opposite: if there weren't such airline-career-impacting risks to instructing "on the side" I'd do a lot more of it. Personally, being an instructor was one of the most postive airmanship-formative experiences (as well as professionally satisfying) of my aviation career, even among the...

My bad, I didn't get that you were specifically referring to CFIs.

While it may be a similar "training model", it isn't remotely the same "business model". For the military folks, the airmanship-building exposure to varied experiences is achieved in the years of operational flying that follow the initial undergraduate training experience. At the airlines, the...

As an aside, I don't believe this is an accurate statement. Although the anecdotal data (there goes that phrase again...) gathering easily uncovers sob story after sob story of the financial hardships incurred via whatever industry upheaval event you wish to orient around, there is tremendous...

Literally tens of thousands have successfully walked this path before you.

His idea is fine if you don't actually care about the airmanship and judgment skills of the pilot you produce. Those things require a variety of experience to develop, and a thoroughly stovepiped training pipeline produces a pilot who has only seen the things you have shown him and only knows...

There is a huge segment of the population that does, and are making very good money in the trades.

I heartily second this. For the OP, sit down, start reading, and take the time to begin to understand all of the forces that determine what a good vs bad regional would be to work for. Many of those factors -- commutes/bases, pay, scheduling, upgrades, flow, etc -- have been mentioned in this...

There is not a lot of hiring out of the feeders into mainline FedEx, despite what the "Purple Runways" PR might have you think. If the two big freight flyers are on someone's list of desired career destinations, the regionals and/or the ACMI carriers like Atlas are the best route.

The answer for "pilots have been losing stick-and-rudder skills due to atrophy" doesn't seem to be "don't hire pilots, then".

Not to be too snarky, but.... https://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3.asp

Next: keep your chin up and press on. Almost everyone in aviation has an "oops" of some sort on their professional record, so you're in good company.

My idea for 121 airline recurrent training is to have a fleet of Cubs of Citabrias or Champs, and before each annual sim cycle each pilot has to do three trips around the air patch to three three-points and three wheel landings in a crosswind. Nobody else seems to think this is a good idea.

As someone who is current in a professional flying job, you wouldn't need to. Although it is the major airlines themselves who have created the self-licking ice cream cone of a virtually-required hiring path through the regonals, the vast majority of military guys get to skip that step. Unless...

Not exactly. If you want the real scoop on this, PM me.