Has UND gotten any worse?

Dugie8 said:
You guys are both gone, the quality of students has increased exponentially.
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Dugie, your comment is detrimental to networking. ;)

























































































In all honesty, I'm kidding with the above and I could not give a ---- otherwise. I don't know you nor will I ever. My post was in good fun. Seems like you take your life way too seriously. ;)
 
Dugie8 said:
You guys are both gone, the quality of students has increased exponentially.
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Well yeah, since we affected so many students negatively... it's so nice that their insecurities are no longer vulnerable by such harsh city-goers!
 
See I still have no idea of real names of other CFI's here.

It's a mixed bag. I'd say we're starting to get the hang of it again. The move to air china was a big wake up call to management on what's important and what's being chased down. We had about a year of being pushed just to finish students, and now we're starting to come back to quality overall.

I've always held my students to quality first with template and hours a close second. However, I had my butt handed to me by management more than a few times in the last two years for doing it like that. Now we're being encourgaged for quality first again.

It feels good to be coming back to quality vs quantity. It was a long couple of years where the upper guys were running around with no idea what to do next.
 
ProudPilot said:
See I still have no idea of real names of other CFI's here.
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I think I know your real name! :D

ProudPilot said:
I had my butt handed to me by management more than a few times in the last two years for doing it like that. Now we're being encourgaged for quality first again.
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In three years of instructing, I've never felt pushed to slack standards for flight time nor have I ever gotten in hot water for a student taking longer than allotted to finish. I have certainly had my fair share of students going over time, but I don't know where guys are coming from when they make statements like that. I just tried to figure out if I was going to go over as early in training as I could and brought it to the attention of the proper people as early as possible in training. It has never been a problem. The only thing I was ever told was "get it done as efficiently as possible." Which doesn't tell me to cut standards. :dunno:
 
As a fellow UND grad and being around the block a little bit... Most flight schools push quantity over quality. The reason is because good flight schools that have high quality students and but don't have a lot a students or doesn't get any of them done on time go out of business. Schools that get students done, quality or not stay in business.

Just the way it works you know?
 
AngelFuree said:
Just curious how you're all liking it out there.
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I just hate having to make the trip from Cleveland, OH to Grand Forks when my break is over. The journey seems to get increasingly depressing every year. Once I'm up there, though, it's actually not bad, and I try to enjoy my time (but I really hate school, as usual).

siouxhawk said:
not sure how that's possible with air china's running wild in flight ops and ryan hall
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我不明白，先生

Nah, overall, I think that they're a good group of people. The only thing that I don't like about them is that they don't seem to take baths or showers, for some reason.
 
coa787 said:
Nah, overall, I think that they're a good group of people. The only thing that I don't like about them is that they don't seem to take baths or showers, for some reason.
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I agree. They are extremely polite and never doing anything stupid (except they dont know the meaning of "no running on the ramp"). I like having them there because those contracts are what bought our school the new C172s. Seeing them means the money is still coming in, kinda.
 
During the break myself and five or 6 other CFI's went to the wellness center and ended up in a pickup basketball game against a group of about the same number of air china guys... we got smoked. But yeah, the last two Air China classes are miles ahead of the previous few that I've worked with in terms of motivation and preparation.
 
gotWXdagain said:
During the break myself and five or 6 other CFI's went to the wellness center and ended up in a pickup basketball game against a group of about the same number of air china guys... we got smoked. But yeah, the last two Air China classes are miles ahead of the previous few that I've worked with in terms of motivation and preparation.
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The Air China students were ALWAYS playing basketball at the Wellness. I'd always see some of my students playing there every time I went.
 
AngelFuree said:
Not really, but it was funnier seeing all the cheerleaders gang up and bitch even more about us. ;)
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You guys are so cool. Typical airline pilots.

On a side note, I am watching the Sioux play Robert Morris right now. I think one thing that might have gotten more painful is watching Pat Sweeney do an intermission interview. Is it me or are they the most awkward interviews in history?
 
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