well what makes you think he just got done flying the seminole? I know the guy and well you are so far off from the truth its hilarious and I know the UND flight instructors on the forums will agree. I would say until you know who the person is I would not cast judgement on there flying abilities. For those who feel that 280 hours TT in the UND bubble is not real world flying expereiocne may have some truth to it but I also know that UND bubble has its very challenging points to it. I just think you guys need to stop the judgement of this guy and say congrats and nothing more. None of this at 280 hours is not ready to fly a CRj crap. I know that the most of you who post on here are not UND flight instructors and are not even in 414. So I would be careful because there are UND flight instructors on here and when you start dogging UND, Flight Instructors, and anything else to complain about, they read and they remember who said what, and who is to say that they may not give you a hard time when they are flying with you?
-Farva
You might want to read my post again. I congratulated the guy though I still hold my stance on what I said. Furthermore, you are right. I'm not in 414. I'm about done w/ CFII, and if you think I'm gonna hold back my opinions in fear that it may compromise camaraderie from 15, 20, 30, or 100 UND CFIs on JC or anywhere else, then you're wrong. Nothing that has been said here is directed at the individual, and if what has been said hurts his/her/your UND pride, then so be it. After all, being a UND student/instructor should make you the proudest person ever.
I'm getting close to 3 years of being at this school. Even though networking is important, I'm not gonna hold my thoughts or opinions on something just for the sake of kissing some ass. There's plenty of people to network from, and I know plenty more cool people in the aviation department at UND and outside UND. You might think that I say all of this in the forums because you can't see my face, but believe me....I stand out pretty easily in a crowd of 50,000 NDans, and even if you didn't know me, you could easily guess who I am. The thought doesn't bother me, I don't hide. The character that a lot of you guys in the UND forums might not like about me is what has also gotten me many firm connections and friends.
Why am I taking the time to write this post? Simple. I do it because I think way too many people are ####ified because of networking and lots of UND students should wake up.
This is going way off-topic, I must admit, but I've noticed a continuing trend in students letting themselves being treated as simple students here from fear of retaliation by the upper ladder or simply because they don't care.
I see a lot of mistreatment to students by new hires and by older CFIs where the students don't speak up. I'm so sick and tired of seeing that. You don't know how much it bothers me when I see students coward beneath their CFIs and other school employees because they feel so inferior to them that they're just afraid of speaking up, or even students taking sh t from cocky SOFs or cocky airport employees. I'm not even saying that you should argue getting down to a low class, but don't let those employees go on a power-trip with you just because you think it might affect your chances of networking or getting hired. Honestly, you don't know how many times I've spoken up to those types of people. I don't argue w/ them, because there's no reason for me to argue with them. I'm paying them and I'm the customer, and they realize it when you set your attitude as a customer. No one will step on you if you take the firm stance. Now, if you coward like the 100lb freshman kids, everyone will step on you. Quite sad to say, but the customer relations at UND has been declining so much these past few months. I am happy to say that a few of the leads are doing an excellent job so far with treating students as customers, and that makes me happy, but I would be happier if other instructors and employees would learn from these individuals and raise their level of professionalism.
Step up guys.
/end off-topic rant.
