I was debating for a while whether or not to get the CFI. I have almsot 400 hrs 35 me. This sealed the deal
"I soon discover that I was learning as much about flying as my students. A pilto doesn't understand the real limitation of his craft until he's instructed in it. Try as he may, he can never duplicate intentially the plights that student gets him into by accident. When you're flying yourself, you in advance whether you're going to pull the stick back, push it forward, or cut the throttle. You think of a maneuver before you attempt it. But you're never sure what a student is going to do. He's likely to haul the nose up and cut the gun at the very moment when more speed is needed. If you check his errors too quickly, he loses confidence in his ability to fly. If you let them go too long, he'll crash you. You must learn the exact limits of your plane, and always keep him far enough within them so the wrong movement of a control will still leave you with a situation well in hand. You must learn not how high high the tail should go in a take-offf, but how high it can go without disaster; not how to avoid a wind drift when you're landing, but how much drift there can be when the wheels touch, without a ground loop of blown tire resulting. And after you've learned how to keep a student out of trouble, you find that you've become a better pilot yourself. As you instruct your student in the primary art of flying, he instructs you in its advanced phases. In a gust of wind, or if the engine fails, or in any emergency, you handle your plane more skillfully than you ever did before."
-Charles Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis
-Jason
"I soon discover that I was learning as much about flying as my students. A pilto doesn't understand the real limitation of his craft until he's instructed in it. Try as he may, he can never duplicate intentially the plights that student gets him into by accident. When you're flying yourself, you in advance whether you're going to pull the stick back, push it forward, or cut the throttle. You think of a maneuver before you attempt it. But you're never sure what a student is going to do. He's likely to haul the nose up and cut the gun at the very moment when more speed is needed. If you check his errors too quickly, he loses confidence in his ability to fly. If you let them go too long, he'll crash you. You must learn the exact limits of your plane, and always keep him far enough within them so the wrong movement of a control will still leave you with a situation well in hand. You must learn not how high high the tail should go in a take-offf, but how high it can go without disaster; not how to avoid a wind drift when you're landing, but how much drift there can be when the wheels touch, without a ground loop of blown tire resulting. And after you've learned how to keep a student out of trouble, you find that you've become a better pilot yourself. As you instruct your student in the primary art of flying, he instructs you in its advanced phases. In a gust of wind, or if the engine fails, or in any emergency, you handle your plane more skillfully than you ever did before."
-Charles Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis
-Jason
