You might be a CFI if...

I'm a freshman on the flight team. I hold my Cfi and Cfii. I'm quitting at semester because I can't stay the other super pilot egos. Especially the captains of the team who are seniors and hold their ppl.
I understand the concept of it.. But it's just not for me.
 
JustinS said:
Your school makes the flight team members pay to fly for practice???
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It was weird. Once you were on the team, you got unlimited sim, and like you an hour a week or so for practice. It was during the time leading up to tryouts that they wanted a 3 hour per week flying commitment on our own dime. That wasn't happening.
 
Ayork62493 said:
I'm a freshman on the flight team. I hold my Cfi and Cfii. I'm quitting at semester because I can't stay the other super pilot egos. Especially the captains of the team who are seniors and hold their ppl.
I understand the concept of it.. But it's just not for me.
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Yep, that about sums it up. Unfortunately that ego lasts even after the competition is over (and none of them did very well).
 
p1l07m4n said:
It was weird. Once you were on the team, you got unlimited sim, and like you an hour a week or so for practice. It was during the time leading up to tryouts that they wanted a 3 hour per week flying commitment on our own dime. That wasn't happening.
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:aghast: What school is this??
 
all of these are great...some from my experience:

you might be a CFI if:

You've seen the sun come up at the airport, and while you're watching it set you think 'only one more to go'....and it's july.

As you're turning around the exit ramp to get on the highway, with coffee in one hand, you try to determine the bank angle of the cup to keep the coffee level based on your speed.
 
Chief Captain said:
That video is reason #68 why I dislike non-towered airports.
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Where in the video does it indicate the airport is non-towered?

Ive been cut-off on final and turned inside of more times than I can count at towered airports. It's not like I teach students to fly a huge pattern either....This doesn't even take into account the time controllers have screwed up. Confusing our position or aircraft with another.

90% of the airports out there don't have control towers, but yet somehow we all manage. Or maybe we're all just dangerous...
 
TwoTwoLeft said:
Where in the video does it indicate the airport is non-towered?

Ive been cut-off on final and turned inside of more times than I can count at towered airports. It's not like I teach students to fly a huge pattern either....This doesn't even take into account the time controllers have screwed up. Confusing our position or aircraft with another.

90% of the airports out there don't have control towers, but yet somehow we all manage. Or maybe we're all just dangerous...
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1. That sort of thing happens more often at non-towered fields. I've been in that situation multiple times.

2. I looked and didn't notice a tower.

The worst part is it usually happens when the student has everything nailed. Perfectly trimmed and aligned with the runway, then out of the corner of your eye, you see some moron doing what that guy did. No radio calls either.

I'll stick to the 10% of airports that have towers.
 
Chief Captain said:
That video is reason #68 why I dislike non-towered airports.
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TwoTwoLeft said:
Where in the video does it indicate the airport is non-towered?

Ive been cut-off on final and turned inside of more times than I can count at towered airports. It's not like I teach students to fly a huge pattern either....This doesn't even take into account the time controllers have screwed up. Confusing our position or aircraft with another.

90% of the airports out there don't have control towers, but yet somehow we all manage. Or maybe we're all just dangerous...
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It's towered. KDWH in Houston, I got my CFI there.

http://www.airnav.com/airport/KDWH

http://maps.google.com/?ll=30.060143,-95.548525&spn=0.030049,0.038581&t=h&z=15
 
Chief Captain said:
The worst part is it usually happens when the student has everything nailed. Perfectly trimmed and aligned with the runway, then out of the corner of your eye, you see some moron doing what that guy did. No radio calls either.
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So? The student needs to realize that stuff like that can happen, be aware of it, and fly the plane. That's why you keep your head outside. The problem is that pilots rely on the tower to tell them what way to enter the pattern and what directions to turn. So when pilots go to a non-towered airport they just ignore the segmented circle and do what ever they want. The problem is not that we NEED towers to guide us and keep us safe. The problem is how students are being taught to approach, function and think for themselves in a non towered environment.


I'll stick to the 10% of airports that have towers.
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If you think radios make things safer... Its SEE & Avoid, not hear & avoid. If you really think about, far less radio calls are made regarding position at a towered airport vs non-towered. At towered airports, Pilots generally don't speak unless they're spoken to with no REAL update on pattern position. Generally, larger patterns are flown and it's much easier to lose your targets. FAR more communication seems to go on at non towered airports anyway.
 
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