Reinvent yourself to meet a modern market: If you are a paid technical instructor and your classes are shrinking, offer training over the internet.

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"Our job is to make it really easy to use, so that an instructor without a lot of technical knowledge really can get up and running on their own, " Pittinsky said.

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He served as an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member, according to a biography on the site.

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He was an instructor and Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman, accident investigator and national technical committee member, according to a biography on the Web site of his company.

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This checks their technical competence and is a test which all French nationals have to pass before being able to start an instructor apprenticeship.

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