Regional New Hire by May 2006: Reasonable Goal?
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sorrygottarunway
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its not the airplane... what I'm finding as I talk to people is that an airplane is an airplane is an airplane etc. I am interested in the people I work with and how they support each other in the workplace. If you've got a company where all the employees do that (do I dare include management?) you've got an awesome company.
sorrygottarunway
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Seriously? Because I've got a resume on it's way if that's true.
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doood... you gotta try instructing. The whole secret of it seems to be behind the delivery: if you crack jokes and make the lessons humerous, they will listen and you will have a full schedule in no time!
Seriously? Because I've got a resume on it's way if that's true.
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doood... you gotta try instructing. The whole secret of it seems to be behind the delivery: if you crack jokes and make the lessons humerous, they will listen and you will have a full schedule in no time!
Kingairer
'Tiger Team' Member
Let me start of by saying I enjoyed instructing. I was in college, had low living cost, going to school part time (helped break the day up), flew with students mostly my age, worked for a place where I didnt have to drum up students, Pretty good superiors, and chances for multi. Thats nearly a perfect world as far as CFIing goes.
Ok, here are some things that really suck and keep you striving for me. Things I did Not like about CFIing in no real order.
1. Low Pay.
2. They have that smell that hundreds have puked in them since 1969.
3. Radios almost always sucked. ATC nearly hated to here your plane thats been up 8 times already that day with the same Dern radio problem, but still hasnt been fixed. Here was one of my favorites, Squawk 5232. You put that into the box and it comes on there screen as 7442. So then you have to try to out think the box like its some WWII enigma machine. Of course it never worked.
4. Like Lazy 8s? I dont and I never will. That goes for 8s on pylons and host of other ones. How bout doing them 4 hours out of a day.
5. You rarely get to fly unless you pull the "let me demonstrate".
6. Having to describe in detail to ATC what you were doing and how many approaches you want to shoot and which one your landing out of etc..AHHHH
7. Reschedules...due to wx, crap airplane, no show student etc
8. Liabilty of sending someone off in an airplane that you arent in.
9. CFI Staff Meetings to discuss the traffic pattern, again.
10. Late nite Cross Countries, With a miserable ground speed of 75 knots.
11. Late nite cross countries where you dont go, just sign a pilot off to go.
12. The Chuck Yeager Student whose got all the answers, but none of the "Right Stuff"
13. Seeing the same dull airport over and over again, you may get to go on a journey to that airport 10 miles away if your lucky today!
14. Have to pull a smaller heater up to the airplane in the winter and use some crazy thing to de-ice it with, NICE!
15. Hot as can be in the summer, at least my one arm out the window is nice and cool. Then there is that one airplane thats window didnt open, nice touch.
16. The cut throat environment of trying to get the hell out, and watching as some of that prize flight time went to those who had other...ummm....qualifications?
Thats enough for now, I could go on. I could probably make a list about regional flying too, But to compare is not even in the same ballpark. My point is that you need to continue to strive to get the hell out, unless you are one of the few who are carreer teachers/pilots. This isnt directed at anyone really on this thread and probably go somewhere else, imagine me posting something like that!
Ok, here are some things that really suck and keep you striving for me. Things I did Not like about CFIing in no real order.
1. Low Pay.
2. They have that smell that hundreds have puked in them since 1969.
3. Radios almost always sucked. ATC nearly hated to here your plane thats been up 8 times already that day with the same Dern radio problem, but still hasnt been fixed. Here was one of my favorites, Squawk 5232. You put that into the box and it comes on there screen as 7442. So then you have to try to out think the box like its some WWII enigma machine. Of course it never worked.
4. Like Lazy 8s? I dont and I never will. That goes for 8s on pylons and host of other ones. How bout doing them 4 hours out of a day.
5. You rarely get to fly unless you pull the "let me demonstrate".
6. Having to describe in detail to ATC what you were doing and how many approaches you want to shoot and which one your landing out of etc..AHHHH
7. Reschedules...due to wx, crap airplane, no show student etc
8. Liabilty of sending someone off in an airplane that you arent in.
9. CFI Staff Meetings to discuss the traffic pattern, again.
10. Late nite Cross Countries, With a miserable ground speed of 75 knots.
11. Late nite cross countries where you dont go, just sign a pilot off to go.
12. The Chuck Yeager Student whose got all the answers, but none of the "Right Stuff"
13. Seeing the same dull airport over and over again, you may get to go on a journey to that airport 10 miles away if your lucky today!
14. Have to pull a smaller heater up to the airplane in the winter and use some crazy thing to de-ice it with, NICE!
15. Hot as can be in the summer, at least my one arm out the window is nice and cool. Then there is that one airplane thats window didnt open, nice touch.
16. The cut throat environment of trying to get the hell out, and watching as some of that prize flight time went to those who had other...ummm....qualifications?
Thats enough for now, I could go on. I could probably make a list about regional flying too, But to compare is not even in the same ballpark. My point is that you need to continue to strive to get the hell out, unless you are one of the few who are carreer teachers/pilots. This isnt directed at anyone really on this thread and probably go somewhere else, imagine me posting something like that!
And here's my first 14 answers that I'm guaranteed to give out on the first leg tomorrow:
1. Nope.
2. Phoenix
3. Yup!
4. Three years, and you?
5. Nah, just cats!
6. Civilian.
7. Riddle.
8. Skyway.
9. Atlanta
10. Eight years
11. No way! I'll probably always be a commuter.
12. Nah, that's the first time I heard anyone use the phrase 'Don't let me wake up and catch you reading.'
13. Nah, it's a dry heat.
14. Shoot yeah it's hotter in Florida.
1. Nope.
2. Phoenix
3. Yup!
4. Three years, and you?
5. Nah, just cats!
6. Civilian.
7. Riddle.
8. Skyway.
9. Atlanta
10. Eight years
11. No way! I'll probably always be a commuter.
12. Nah, that's the first time I heard anyone use the phrase 'Don't let me wake up and catch you reading.'
13. Nah, it's a dry heat.
14. Shoot yeah it's hotter in Florida.
Kingairer
'Tiger Team' Member
I think its easier to look back and say "oh those were the days" type stuff then when you are actually flying the crapy airplane etc. If you want to even go real simple, you get paid a hellava lot better to fly a much better, more comfortable, and safer airplane. I remember CFIing being rewarding experience to a certain extent, but you can also feel rewarded in airline flying to. You may not get it from passengers, but there is some there.
sorrygottarunway
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Instructing can be rewarding if one doesn't treat it as the stepping stone it is, so that the student remembers you not as "the dude who screwed me over for 50 hours to get to his next job", but "the dude who made me a pilot, and made me laugh." The Patch Adams of Aviation.
I've only been puked on twice in the past year, much less than the average college student experiences while partying.
I've only been puked on twice in the past year, much less than the average college student experiences while partying.
Tram
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. You may not get it from passengers, but there is some there.
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Yeh, like the fact that your "job" is to sit in a cockpit all day.. Or the fact that you can fly over a traffic jam, or all those thousands of people sitting in offices all day and say... Sure am glad that's not me...
. You may not get it from passengers, but there is some there.
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Yeh, like the fact that your "job" is to sit in a cockpit all day.. Or the fact that you can fly over a traffic jam, or all those thousands of people sitting in offices all day and say... Sure am glad that's not me...
SmitteyB
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Yeh, like the fact that your "job" is to sit in a cockpit all day.. Or the fact that you can fly over a traffic jam, or all those thousands of people sitting in offices all day and say... Sure am glad that's not me...
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Great post. I agree. I would much rather be flying an airplane, for pay than sitting at a cubicle WORKING for a living....
Yeh, like the fact that your "job" is to sit in a cockpit all day.. Or the fact that you can fly over a traffic jam, or all those thousands of people sitting in offices all day and say... Sure am glad that's not me...
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Great post. I agree. I would much rather be flying an airplane, for pay than sitting at a cubicle WORKING for a living....