Teaching Aliens to fly

Surfneric

Surfneric

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So to teach alien flight students as in individual CFI, you have to register with the tsa as a "Flight Training Provider". I don't know how I feel about this. I have one guy who is an alien who wants to do some flight instruction but I don't like the thought of putting my name into the TSA system as an alien instructor, for only one student....

Anyone else have any thoughts on this? I have nothing to hide, but at the same time, do you really want to put your name on the radar screen by saying you instruct aliens?
 
I would think you'd have to get over it, or fight for one of the American born student pilots that pops up a month ... nationwide.
 
Thankfully, the only alien I have trained has been in a glider, and we are exempt. I wouldn't worry about doing it though, you don't really have a choice.
 
I would think that Aliens would be a joy to teach given that they probably have superior math, science and other educational skills that far exceed earthlings. My fear would be smell, plus their feet. I have seen aliens depicted as having weird feet - not human like at all - which would potentially make rudder usage on a taildragger more cumbersome.
 
drunkenbeagle said:
Thankfully, the only alien I have trained has been in a glider, and we are exempt. I wouldn't worry about doing it though, you don't really have a choice.
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Well the only real choice I have right now is not teaching him, and that's the choice I'm leaning towards. I'm not currently hurting for students, so I don't know if it would be worth the extra hassle.
 
Surfneric said:
Well the only real choice I have right now is not teaching him, and that's the choice I'm leaning towards. I'm not currently hurting for students, so I don't know if it would be worth the extra hassle.
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My personal opinion, that would be a really silly reason to turn down a student. They don't exactly grow on trees.

Dealing with the TSA is an unfortunate reality, but it won't make me turn down work.
 
If you allow a fear of the TSA to keep you from teaching this guy to fly, then the terrorists have won. Where is the guy from? If it is a predominantly muslim country and he says things like "I can't wait to learn to fly so I can turn the Sears Tower into a molten conflagration" then that's one thing - but I'd probably take the student.
 
So have you been flying out of the local airport, or groom lake? Also, are they better with handling G forces, or do they use extra technology to handle more g's (pun intended)? Lastly, how well have you been blurring pictures of onlookers so we can disprove the validity of an alien claim? I know the people with bigfoot have been doing an excellent job blurring him, I'm just wondering if you simply blur the alien, or the aircraft as well?
 
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WacoFan said:
I would think that Aliens would be a joy to teach given that they probably have superior math, science and other educational skills that far exceed earthlings. My fear would be smell, plus their feet. I have seen aliens depicted as having weird feet - not human like at all - which would potentially make rudder usage on a taildragger more cumbersome.
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I always thought aliens had anti gravity ships or teleported, my eduction by TV fails me again.
 
WacoFan said:
If you allow a fear of the TSA to keep you from teaching this guy to fly, then the terrorists have won. Where is the guy from? If it is a predominantly muslim country and he says things like "I can't wait to learn to fly so I can turn the Sears Tower into a molten conflagration" then that's one thing - but I'd probably take the student.
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He is a nice guy, and hasn't given me any weird vibes. The only real hesitation is that I don't really have a lot of time to fly with him right now as it is, and I didn't know if it would be worth putting myself on the tsa radar screen of "ALIEN INSTRUCTION PROVIDER", and what ever else that might entail, considering that he is the only foreign student i foresee teaching for a while.
 
What are you really worried about? Lets play worst case scenario, you teach him, sign him off... forget about him, and 2 years down the road he does some awful thing, do you really think you are going to be in trouble? Do you think they will blame you? As long as he doesn't give off any weird vibes you have nothing to worry about. Take him, its more $ and more hours....
 
It would be hypocritical not to teach them, since they've taught us how to fly in the past.

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