You might be a CFI if...
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proxima3003
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You are a green CFI if you...
... catch yourself staring at the hobbs and wonder if the thing still has a heart beat.
... you sit for hours trying to think of something smart and snapy to add to this thread...
... catch yourself staring at the hobbs and wonder if the thing still has a heart beat.
... you sit for hours trying to think of something smart and snapy to add to this thread...
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
You read through an airline's safety reports and think to yourself "Man, those guys have it easy!"
Roger Roger
Bottom of the list
The last student I taught was in a plane with only one PTT at a towered airport. Nothing like learning radio procedures by immersion...
Though we did figure out that the way our intercom worked, I could reach over and press the PTT and talk and it would transmit my voice.
You know you're a CFI when your student gets airsick shooting an approach in IMC and turbulence, so you have to execute an approach and landing in a 20 knot gusting crosswind while simultaneously fishing a sic-sac out of the seat pocket then listening to your student lose his cookies in the left seat. And you do it flawlessly.
gotWXdagain
Polished Member
You might be a CFI if you have a daily diet of Ramen Noodles..............
Sort of. I think for me its more along the lines of
...You might be a CFI if you eat sushi in the summer, ramen in the winter.
Or maybe I should just budget better and save for the slow times?
p1l07m4n
SF340 Pirate, First Mate
Just noticed this one today
...you might be a CFI if you clean out your kneeboard, and have over 7 pieces of paper, with nothing but ATIS reports on them. (I'm talking every page folded in half, and both halves as well as front and back completely filled).
...also going over said pages from above, you notice that you have ATIS for every letter in the alphabet...multiple times.
...you might be a CFI if you clean out your kneeboard, and have over 7 pieces of paper, with nothing but ATIS reports on them. (I'm talking every page folded in half, and both halves as well as front and back completely filled).
...also going over said pages from above, you notice that you have ATIS for every letter in the alphabet...multiple times.
killbilly
Vocals, Lyrics, Triangle, Washboard, Kittens
My CFI told me a good one:
"You refuse to write in anything but very tiny print with ultra-fine-tipped pens."
popaviator
Well-Known Member
You work with Chinese people all day
p1l07m4n
SF340 Pirate, First Mate
Nothing but the Pilot G-2 0.38 for me!
drunkenbeagle
Gang Member
They've been exploding on me, time for a new model...
rframe
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A150K
Well-Known Member
And live in the AZ desert while doing so...
Hammertime
Well-Known Member
Try the 301 Compact! Same pen, pocket sized! (I can't remember the model number... Something with an "M")Zebra F-301, love 'em.
EDIT: Just googled it. It's just the F-301 Compact
http://www.zebrapen.com/products/pen/f-301-compact?c=30
p1l07m4n
SF340 Pirate, First Mate
Zebra F-301, love 'em.
That's what's on the kneeboard. A perfect fit for the pen holder, and doesn't explode with high pressure altitudes. The G2 0.38 is for logbooks. You've got to have that nice ink flow for the records.
Ajax
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Exactly, what I do
p1l07m4n
SF340 Pirate, First Mate
You might be a CFI if...
...your student asks you how you keep everything memorized (and accurate), and you honestly don't know. You can't even remember what day of the week it is (if the day of the week ends with a "Y," you're working).
...you have been using every creative way to get free lunch from the NIFA competition, and the fruits of your labor have been 3 (so far) of the best lunches you've had at work as a CFI.
...you've also used the time from the previous entry to stock the mini fridge, that you "do not" have, cleverly hidden in your office.
...during the short-field and power-off 180 landing events, you watch everything happen, only to wish that you had not graduated last spring so you could show these folks how it's done!
...tower calls you on the phone, asks if you are going to Wendy's, and asks if you wouldn't mind bringing them something back.
...your student asks you how you keep everything memorized (and accurate), and you honestly don't know. You can't even remember what day of the week it is (if the day of the week ends with a "Y," you're working).
...you have been using every creative way to get free lunch from the NIFA competition, and the fruits of your labor have been 3 (so far) of the best lunches you've had at work as a CFI.
...you've also used the time from the previous entry to stock the mini fridge, that you "do not" have, cleverly hidden in your office.
...during the short-field and power-off 180 landing events, you watch everything happen, only to wish that you had not graduated last spring so you could show these folks how it's done!
...tower calls you on the phone, asks if you are going to Wendy's, and asks if you wouldn't mind bringing them something back.