Giving Career Advice

[mshunter]

No, snot nosed. Thought you knew about FITS, guess I was wrong:
http://www.faa.gov/training_testing/training/fits/training/generic/media/Private_sel.pdf

According to the FAA, lesson two is flying to another airport. You need to write the FAA and tell them they're ripping people off.

I've flown in just about every environment, military, civilian, 121, 135, taught throughout the world. I've written part 141 TCOs and OPS manuals and 135 OPSPECs. After years of doing it I've come to the conclusion that teaching people the things they need to know day one is the way to go. Decision making is not an afterthought for post solo, but skills that should be taught day one. You've got some nerve coming on the website and trying to tell people I'm out to rip them off and fishing for cross country flight time.

From posts like this, it's plain to see that none of the previous experince you have has taught you any tact in your approach to what you disagree with.

Sheesh man, he wasn't attacking you. You may have done it differently, but going to another airport on flight #2 doesn't have to involve a cross country.


[video]http://www.spike.com/video-clips/6lycf9/simmer-down-now[/video]

 

[adk]

When we talk/interview them and go over their log books, we are seeing many a cross country flight early in their training. And many on the second flight. What is told to us by them is that they did enjoy the flight. Yet, they had no clue as to what was going on and that the flight cost them about four hundred dollars.

I think you are considering a cross-country to be a landing over 50nm away from the departure airport. I think the rest of us are thinking more along the lines of point to point cross-country, not necessarily a long flight.

 

[juskl]

To clarify. Point to point is great and I absolutely have no problem with that. We land at a host of the airports around the Phoenix area. I am talking the <50 nm.. Heck that wouldn`t even bother me as much as the about 125 nm each way that ocurred with one student we talked to. With almost half of that under the hood.. for a Private.

Folks not wanting to offend and appologize to all if I came off as a JA on the matter.

This started by me trying to write something helpful in a field that I am passionate about. I have seen the good the bad and the ugly. Just trying to do my part in making it better. As are we all.

I have been on this site since 02 and it is thanks to this JC site that I am where I am and have learned much of what has been learned.

So just take this as my experience and mine only. Good luck to all.

Justin

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

juskl, I have seen the exact thing you have described: A 1.5 hour XC which consisted of straight and level, a landing, straight and level, and a landing very early in the training. With that said, if done properly, it can be a very effective training method.

 

[Blackhawk]

From posts like this, it's plain to see that none of the previous experince you have has taught you any tact in your approach to what you disagree with.

Sheesh man, he wasn't attacking you. You may have done it differently, but going to another airport on flight #2 doesn't have to involve a cross country.


[video]http://www.spike.com/video-clips/6lycf9/simmer-down-now[/video]

"Ask when you will do some cross country flying? If it flight number two... run... the instructor is trying to build cross country time on your back."

 

[Autothrust Blue]

No matter what you want to do in aviation, get your CFI. Not that you will use it, but you will truly realize what you didn't know.. and it is alot.

I don't think anyone should become a CFI if they don't want to teach. Those of us who are not CFI's still get to learn what we don't know...

And I actually know a few CFIs who still don't know what they don't know...

 

[dasleben]

Being a CFI is great experience, but I'm constantly reminded at just how much there is to know in aviation, and how little of it I actually do know.

 

[A150K]

Being a CFI is great experience, but I'm constantly reminded at just how much there is to know in aviation, and how little of it I actually do know.

I'm reminded of that every day. There is always something to be learned in aviation and it is my opinion that every certificate is a license to learn (maybe a little bit less with the ATP, but I do not know a single ATP who knows everything).