KOAK Flyer
Well-Known Member
Hey everyone,
I am getting ready to take my CFI checkride here in the next few weeks and I am starting to have growing concerns about my ability as an instructor. I am a low-time pilot (350 hours) and, like many of you, am looking at the CFI route towards building the hours to go to the airlines. Though I know this is a stepping stone, I also understand the importance of the job, the responsibility that I would have as an instructor, and that my primary job is to build quality pilots, not flight time. However, the closer I get to actually doing the job, the more I start thinking to myself, "What is a 350 hour pilot doing teaching people how to fly when I am still in the process of learning?" I find myself often asking whether or not I have had enough experience as a pilot in order to be a flight instructor. For all those that have gone this route, have you found these to be normal feelings? If so, how do you cope with them? I am lucky that I will be having an older, more experienced flight instructor mentoring me, but is this enough? Thanks.
I am getting ready to take my CFI checkride here in the next few weeks and I am starting to have growing concerns about my ability as an instructor. I am a low-time pilot (350 hours) and, like many of you, am looking at the CFI route towards building the hours to go to the airlines. Though I know this is a stepping stone, I also understand the importance of the job, the responsibility that I would have as an instructor, and that my primary job is to build quality pilots, not flight time. However, the closer I get to actually doing the job, the more I start thinking to myself, "What is a 350 hour pilot doing teaching people how to fly when I am still in the process of learning?" I find myself often asking whether or not I have had enough experience as a pilot in order to be a flight instructor. For all those that have gone this route, have you found these to be normal feelings? If so, how do you cope with them? I am lucky that I will be having an older, more experienced flight instructor mentoring me, but is this enough? Thanks.