Rstone,
I don't think anyone is saying instructors shouldn't be paid well, and of course instructors, like anyone else, want to make all they can. More power to them. As far as Captdave defending himself, he was the one who started flinging insults. It's just that those posts were deleted. Aren't you flinging insults as well. I thought you said if someone didn't have anything nice to say, they shouldn't say anything at all. Does your advice not apply to you, just to everyone else? Although, I would agree with you in that, criticizing spelling errors and things of that nature does seem nitpicky and irrelevant. Captdave has had a couple of really good and innovative ideas. I liked the video idea and especially the corporate approach. Those are things that many instructors may not have thought of. Really good ideas. Most of the rest are not new or innovative. They are things that any one with any common sense could come up with or things that others feel aren't necessarily sound business ideas, which is fine for this post. It's just not groundbreaking, and I'm not so sure they would earn you $100,000 a year. As for you slamming travel agents, it's great you can get a D2 or D3 seat on a plane. Perhaps you have a spouse or relative that works for an airline. Thats a great thing to have access to. I flew to Belize for $60 a seat, but not everybody has access to that kind of deal, so they use travel agents. In an earlier post Captdave mentioned arranging the resort and airfare for his students for around $3,000 or something like that. This, in effect, makes him a travel agent, and an expensive one at that. You slammed travel agents, so you were indirectly slamming Captdave too.
I don't think anyone is saying instructors shouldn't be paid well, and of course instructors, like anyone else, want to make all they can. More power to them. As far as Captdave defending himself, he was the one who started flinging insults. It's just that those posts were deleted. Aren't you flinging insults as well. I thought you said if someone didn't have anything nice to say, they shouldn't say anything at all. Does your advice not apply to you, just to everyone else? Although, I would agree with you in that, criticizing spelling errors and things of that nature does seem nitpicky and irrelevant. Captdave has had a couple of really good and innovative ideas. I liked the video idea and especially the corporate approach. Those are things that many instructors may not have thought of. Really good ideas. Most of the rest are not new or innovative. They are things that any one with any common sense could come up with or things that others feel aren't necessarily sound business ideas, which is fine for this post. It's just not groundbreaking, and I'm not so sure they would earn you $100,000 a year. As for you slamming travel agents, it's great you can get a D2 or D3 seat on a plane. Perhaps you have a spouse or relative that works for an airline. Thats a great thing to have access to. I flew to Belize for $60 a seat, but not everybody has access to that kind of deal, so they use travel agents. In an earlier post Captdave mentioned arranging the resort and airfare for his students for around $3,000 or something like that. This, in effect, makes him a travel agent, and an expensive one at that. You slammed travel agents, so you were indirectly slamming Captdave too.
