ZUKO
Well-Known Member
I went out to the airport to finally complete 13 so I could be put in for my stage 14. My instructor called me saying he was going to be late. No big deal. He showed up 15 minutes before showtime(15 minutes or so late). I was ready to go with everything done.
We start taxing and everything goes fine when all of a sudden I hear the engine blade make this loud noise. Our engine blade ripped right through that orange cone. Neither my instructor nor me saw it but we taxied right into those orange cones they have to cover bumps. My instructor and I both look at each other. And my instructor kind of panics and tells me to continue taxing. We continue taxing to the UND run up area where he tells me he is trying to figure out what to do. I told him that we should go back and check out the plane etc. He was like the problem with that was that we will have to reschedule. As we start to do the run up, I told him that we need to go back and I do not want to fly when the plane could be damaged. I told him that its better to not fly today then never fly again. He finally agreed and he tells me he is busy tommorow and the rest of the day today and that we will try to get up sometime early next week. And that this was both of our fauilts yadayada yada. I kept my moulth shut. When we get back to the ramp, he tells me that we are going to fill out some OAH form but he is going to write that we "might have hit the cone." When we clearly sliced right through it. He then sat me down in his office and asked if I had any questions. He sent me home with out signing anything and he went and saw his lead. He told me he would call me after he talked to his lead to reschedule. Still no call.
WHAT THE 8*((&&*(?
This bothered the hell out of me. First of all, I am paying a ton of money to be "getting the best training possible." It is his responsible to make corrective actions if something like this is about to happen. He should of saw the cone. I understand people make mistakes but its how he dealt with it that bothered me. The fact that he wanted to continue to fly after we hit something with out checking the plane out or anything. What kind of Aeronautical Decision making is that? Do I really want some instructor that doesnt put safety a first priority or who will not fully tell the truth on some und report to cover his ass. He never once apologized and handled this poorly.
So now after a month break in flying due to winter break, Getting weathered, and a review flight, and then weathered and hitting a cone, I am going another week with out flying.
This is not what I expected when I came from Seattle to North Dakota. I expected flying 3 times a week. And do not tell me I havent been proactive enough. I have called my instructors lead and the course manager and they are in the long process of getting me my instructor. I think I am going to call my instructors lead and tell him that I dont want to fly with this instructor anymore after todays incident.
Today put me over the edge.
We start taxing and everything goes fine when all of a sudden I hear the engine blade make this loud noise. Our engine blade ripped right through that orange cone. Neither my instructor nor me saw it but we taxied right into those orange cones they have to cover bumps. My instructor and I both look at each other. And my instructor kind of panics and tells me to continue taxing. We continue taxing to the UND run up area where he tells me he is trying to figure out what to do. I told him that we should go back and check out the plane etc. He was like the problem with that was that we will have to reschedule. As we start to do the run up, I told him that we need to go back and I do not want to fly when the plane could be damaged. I told him that its better to not fly today then never fly again. He finally agreed and he tells me he is busy tommorow and the rest of the day today and that we will try to get up sometime early next week. And that this was both of our fauilts yadayada yada. I kept my moulth shut. When we get back to the ramp, he tells me that we are going to fill out some OAH form but he is going to write that we "might have hit the cone." When we clearly sliced right through it. He then sat me down in his office and asked if I had any questions. He sent me home with out signing anything and he went and saw his lead. He told me he would call me after he talked to his lead to reschedule. Still no call.
WHAT THE 8*((&&*(?
This bothered the hell out of me. First of all, I am paying a ton of money to be "getting the best training possible." It is his responsible to make corrective actions if something like this is about to happen. He should of saw the cone. I understand people make mistakes but its how he dealt with it that bothered me. The fact that he wanted to continue to fly after we hit something with out checking the plane out or anything. What kind of Aeronautical Decision making is that? Do I really want some instructor that doesnt put safety a first priority or who will not fully tell the truth on some und report to cover his ass. He never once apologized and handled this poorly.
So now after a month break in flying due to winter break, Getting weathered, and a review flight, and then weathered and hitting a cone, I am going another week with out flying.
This is not what I expected when I came from Seattle to North Dakota. I expected flying 3 times a week. And do not tell me I havent been proactive enough. I have called my instructors lead and the course manager and they are in the long process of getting me my instructor. I think I am going to call my instructors lead and tell him that I dont want to fly with this instructor anymore after todays incident.
Today put me over the edge.
