Hootie
Old Skool
I don\'t know ANYTHING! (please don\'t tell my students)
Just got done teaching my first night of ground. Whew! I was contacted about teaching it to a bunch of guys about 35 minutes away from where I was based, and I said sure (about a month ago). So I never hear back and then last Thursday I get a call asking if I can start in 5 days (because some guys want to be done by mid april). So over the weekend somehow just by word of mouth the class grew from 5 to 15 and I couldn't possibly order books in time (even the books I did order in time and paid big bucks on shipping (2 day) didn't come on time .....thanks for nothing avshop.com). So it was a hectic start that was out of my control. So I prepped for 5 hours making notes and an outline for the class, went in pretty confident with my hour familiarization lesson followed by my hour and a half aerodynamics lesson. I got some really tough questions to explain centrifigul force more and more, and some other nasty ones I think that I just blacked out and answered. (%90 of the class paid me for the entire course afterwards so I must have done something right). I chose ASA books because they are the cheapest(yes I know jepp is better). I was going to have them buy a
plotter/e6-b/ and 2004 test prep. And reccomended the complete private pilot and far/aim. So everyone wants all the books . So I knock of another 5 bucks of the course total because Im a pvssy flight instructor who feels guilty about everyone having to pay only $65 for course books. Even though the class costs 60 bucks less than the nearest other fbo. Oh the life of the flight instructor who actually isn't a dirty bastard trying to rip everyone off.
Questions for the the guys who are or used to be in my shoes.
1. Tell me not to feel guilty
2. For Thursdays class since books won't be here still (thanks avshop.com) Im planning on teaching FAR's (since I can make printouts without the need for tech. explainations)and a review quiz on Aerodynamics....good idea?
3. Any advice on teaching ground school? (its way harder than duel given).
4. If they can get a hold of a 2000-2003 far/aim would you make them buy a 2004?
THANKS FOR LISTENING!
Just got done teaching my first night of ground. Whew! I was contacted about teaching it to a bunch of guys about 35 minutes away from where I was based, and I said sure (about a month ago). So I never hear back and then last Thursday I get a call asking if I can start in 5 days (because some guys want to be done by mid april). So over the weekend somehow just by word of mouth the class grew from 5 to 15 and I couldn't possibly order books in time (even the books I did order in time and paid big bucks on shipping (2 day) didn't come on time .....thanks for nothing avshop.com). So it was a hectic start that was out of my control. So I prepped for 5 hours making notes and an outline for the class, went in pretty confident with my hour familiarization lesson followed by my hour and a half aerodynamics lesson. I got some really tough questions to explain centrifigul force more and more, and some other nasty ones I think that I just blacked out and answered. (%90 of the class paid me for the entire course afterwards so I must have done something right). I chose ASA books because they are the cheapest(yes I know jepp is better). I was going to have them buy a
plotter/e6-b/ and 2004 test prep. And reccomended the complete private pilot and far/aim. So everyone wants all the books . So I knock of another 5 bucks of the course total because Im a pvssy flight instructor who feels guilty about everyone having to pay only $65 for course books. Even though the class costs 60 bucks less than the nearest other fbo. Oh the life of the flight instructor who actually isn't a dirty bastard trying to rip everyone off.
Questions for the the guys who are or used to be in my shoes.
1. Tell me not to feel guilty
2. For Thursdays class since books won't be here still (thanks avshop.com) Im planning on teaching FAR's (since I can make printouts without the need for tech. explainations)and a review quiz on Aerodynamics....good idea?
3. Any advice on teaching ground school? (its way harder than duel given).
4. If they can get a hold of a 2000-2003 far/aim would you make them buy a 2004?
THANKS FOR LISTENING!