The responsibilities expected of a flight instructor is very similar to that of a teacher.  As a teacher you are expected to impart your knowledge and educate your students.  Being a flight instructor should not just be a way to build time to go to the airlines, it should be a way for you to impact others lives and hopefully their careers.  The experience you'll gain as an instructor is invaluable, there is no other way to gain the understanding and comprehension of aviation and the enjoyment of flying any other way.  Take this opportunity not as a chance to build time to go to the airlines, but as an opportunity to experience being a teacher and an educator.

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The training process to be a flight instructor is not difficult and very similar to that of your private pilot and commercial training.  What the difference in the training will be is your ability to explain and teach the maneuver while you are doing it.  This will be your first chance to sit in the right seat, as your instructor will act as your student sitting in the left.  You'll take a while to get comfortable flying from the right, seeing the instruments from another angle, using your left hand for the controls (unless your left handed) and landing can be quite an adjustment.  The flight instructors training syllabus is different than most because the focus is not on flying in general, it's about the fundamentals of instruction.  Taking the step from the student to the teacher is a lot more difficult than most expect, and understanding the fundamentals of instruction is more than memorizing the Gleim Test Prep.

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Guide to Endorsements
To keep flight instructors from endorsing their students logbooks however they want, the FAA has published standardized samples of how they expect logbooks to be endorsed;

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