CFII as initial instructor cert?
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mtsu_av8er
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I did my CFII as my initial. It was straight forward, no tricks.
Everybody says that the initial CFI is the hardest one, and since I feel that I'm stronger at instrument work than VFR work, I decided that it would make my odds that much better. I'm pretty sure that it made my oral pretty tough, but it was still pretty negotiable.
The oral consisted of your typical initial CFI crap....FOI, endorsements, priviledges, Wings program, aircraft logbooks, etc. We then did more FOI stuff, and moved right into lesson plans. I taught Basic Attitude Instrument flying and Instrument systems. We also discussed approaches in great detail and some cross country planning work.
After that, we discussed the Garmin GNS-430. I informed him that the GPS in my plane wasn't updated, and asked if we'd "pretend" that it was. After he was satisfied that I knew enough about legally using GPS (when you can, what it can substitute, operating this particular model, etc) we wrapped up in the classroom and took a break for chow. He gave us 30 minutes, which was enough for him to eat and me to stress a little more over the pre-flight.
We got into the airplane and I began teaching him how to ready the airplane for instrument flight, cockpit checks, instrument checks, and clearances. We departed VFR (uncontrolled airport) on a really windy day (gusting to about 17 knots, 45 degrees across the runway).
After we were out of the pattern, he took the airplane while I put on my hood. After I looked up, we were in a nose-high, decreasing-airspeed attitude and banking at about 45 degrees. I recovered, and he was happy. we did steep turns in both directions, which I screwed up the first time. I called my mistake, lost about 75 feet), and told him that I wanted to do it again. After we did the steep turns, I taught 1 stall and turns to headings, constand rate climbs and descents, and some constant airspeed descents. We headed north to Springfield, TN and he vectored me for the NDB approach (unfair...I had a 430!!!!
), and I shot that and went missed. Did two turns in the holding pattern, then he vectored me for the localizer approach. I forgot to start the time over the FAF, and went missed, and he chewed me a little and decided that he would let me do it again - but with the procedure turn. Did it, shot a perfect approach, and we went missed and headed back to Tune for the ILS to runway 19. Shot the ILS, and broke it off early (there's no circling for that approach) and flew a modified apptern, as everybody was landing north by this point. Landed with about a 15 knot crosswind, and taxied in.
That was it!!! Tough, but reasonable!!! I think that it was about 1.6 in the airplane. We started at 9:00 and I was having my third cold one by 5!!!!
Everybody says that the initial CFI is the hardest one, and since I feel that I'm stronger at instrument work than VFR work, I decided that it would make my odds that much better. I'm pretty sure that it made my oral pretty tough, but it was still pretty negotiable.
The oral consisted of your typical initial CFI crap....FOI, endorsements, priviledges, Wings program, aircraft logbooks, etc. We then did more FOI stuff, and moved right into lesson plans. I taught Basic Attitude Instrument flying and Instrument systems. We also discussed approaches in great detail and some cross country planning work.
After that, we discussed the Garmin GNS-430. I informed him that the GPS in my plane wasn't updated, and asked if we'd "pretend" that it was. After he was satisfied that I knew enough about legally using GPS (when you can, what it can substitute, operating this particular model, etc) we wrapped up in the classroom and took a break for chow. He gave us 30 minutes, which was enough for him to eat and me to stress a little more over the pre-flight.
We got into the airplane and I began teaching him how to ready the airplane for instrument flight, cockpit checks, instrument checks, and clearances. We departed VFR (uncontrolled airport) on a really windy day (gusting to about 17 knots, 45 degrees across the runway).
After we were out of the pattern, he took the airplane while I put on my hood. After I looked up, we were in a nose-high, decreasing-airspeed attitude and banking at about 45 degrees. I recovered, and he was happy. we did steep turns in both directions, which I screwed up the first time. I called my mistake, lost about 75 feet), and told him that I wanted to do it again. After we did the steep turns, I taught 1 stall and turns to headings, constand rate climbs and descents, and some constant airspeed descents. We headed north to Springfield, TN and he vectored me for the NDB approach (unfair...I had a 430!!!!
That was it!!! Tough, but reasonable!!! I think that it was about 1.6 in the airplane. We started at 9:00 and I was having my third cold one by 5!!!!
mtsu_av8er
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and flew a modified apptern
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You really are da bom! I couldn't fly an apptern if I tried.
Uh..... what in the hell is an apptern????
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Smartass....
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and flew a modified apptern
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You really are da bom! I couldn't fly an apptern if I tried.
Uh..... what in the hell is an apptern????
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Smartass....