Why, oh WHYYY??!!

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meritflyer

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Sometimes I could just strap my parachute on, open my door, and jump the hell out of the airplane when instructing.

Pay attention to your pattern, airspeed, radio, your final approach speed, class B airspace, read back your runway assignments and clearances, dont answer your landing clearance with just "roger", full power on takeoff please, acknowledge me and my suggestions in the plane, remember the discussion on how to manage a constant speed prop?, use your checklist for every phase of flight, fly at TPA not 300' below or above, when I say 75 on final that doesnt mean 60, think before you speak on the radio, dont push the mic button and sit there for 10 seconds, fly with your TAC or sectional available, fly with your AFD available, flare the damn thing, put your flaps up first on a touch and go not last, hit the centerline, hold your crosswind corrections in, dont make 30 degree aileron deflections 30' above the ground...

I could go on.
 
<< running into the CFI corner to drop off a beer and quickly leaves!
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Well, will you do me a favor then?

What?

Can you bring me my ChapStick?

No, Napoleon.

But my lips hurt real bad.

Just borrow some from the school nurse. I know she has, like, five sticks in her drawer.

I'm not gonna use hers, you sicko.

See ya.
 
meritflyer said:
Sometimes I could just strap my parachute on, open my door, and jump the hell out of the airplane when instructing.

Pay attention to your pattern, airspeed, radio, your final approach speed, class B airspace, read back your runway assignments and clearances, dont answer your landing clearance with just "roger", full power on takeoff please, acknowledge me and my suggestions in the plane, remember the discussion on how to manage a constant speed prop?, use your checklist for every phase of flight, fly at TPA not 300' below or above, when I say 75 on final that doesnt mean 60, think before you speak on the radio, dont push the mic button and sit there for 10 seconds, fly with your TAC or sectional available, fly with your AFD available, flare the damn thing, put your flaps up first on a touch and go not last, hit the centerline, hold your crosswind corrections in, dont make 30 degree aileron deflections 30' above the ground...

I could go on.
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I surely don't miss those days. Remember though, we were once a student pilot too. If you don't have patience, being a CFI is probably not for you. Yet I understand were you're coming from.
 
Soul Brotha' said:
I surely don't miss those days. Remember though, we were once a student pilot too. If you don't have patience, being a CFI is probably not for you. Yet I understand were you're coming from.
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Oh, I have patience for students pilots. My issue is with guys coming in with several hundred hours for BFR's that can't fly and need 10-20 hours of dual just to get back in it.
 
meritflyer said:
Oh, I have patience for students pilots. My issue is with guys coming in with several hundred hours for BFR's that can't fly and need 10-20 hours of dual just to get back in it.
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That's why you should avoid doing flight reviews, IPC's and aircraft checkouts.
 
Bah. Merit is just venting. We instructors might have all the patience in the world when instructing, but we've ALL had days like this. Even if you were the utmost professional in the cockpit/ classroom, you still need to vent to a bunch of buddies in the know after the fact or you'll pop.
 
I guess I didn't understand this whole venting thing until I became a CFI. I always thought CFI's that did it were jerks, but I think Ian is right.
 
tgrayson said:
That's why you should avoid doing flight reviews, IPC's and aircraft checkouts.
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I second that!!! BFRs are bad news. Major liability for little reward. There was one guy that kept bugging me for an BFR, and I'd seen his pattern work so I avoided him like the plague (I dont think he'd had a BFR in 10 years). Anyway, he recently took off with the fuel on off, snapped his gear off in a ditch. I'm so glad my name wasn't sitting in his logbook.
 
To be honest, I've been loving instructing. Most of my students have been nothing short of incredible. I am having some issues with one at the moment who has to have at least a mild case of ADD. It's almost like talking to someone who doesn't speak English. Words go right in one ear and out the other. He's really been my only problem student though, all the rest of them have been extremely motivated and try their best, which is all I ask for.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
To be honest, I've been loving instructing. Most of my students have been nothing short of incredible. I am having some issues with one at the moment who has to have at least a mild case of ADD. It's almost like talking to someone who doesn't speak English. Words go right in one ear and out the other. He's really been my only problem student though, all the rest of them have been extremely motivated and try their best, which is all I ask for.
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I think most do. Point is though, there are always those days that really frustrate you.

I absolutely love instructing as well, but sometimes students can try your patience. It's normal, and you deal with it. Doesn't take anything away from the job.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
To be honest, I've been loving instructing. Most of my students have been nothing short of incredible. I am having some issues with one at the moment who has to have at least a mild case of ADD. It's almost like talking to someone who doesn't speak English. Words go right in one ear and out the other. He's really been my only problem student though, all the rest of them have been extremely motivated and try their best, which is all I ask for.
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Nope, thats a normal student.

I have noticed a few things that can be a generalization for for the majority of students in my first 80 hours of dual given...

There are two types...

Natural Pilots who don't study vs. Sub-par pilots but great academic-wise.

That's not to say the studious ones can't be good pilots, it just a generalization.

Flying came easier to me but I hated studying...I've got another student who is a smart pilot but can't fly an airplane if his life depended on it...and it does!
 
SmitteyB said:
Nope, thats a normal student.

I have noticed a few things that can be a generalization for for the majority of students in my first 80 hours of dual given...

There are two types...

Natural Pilots who don't study vs. Sub-par pilots but great academic-wise.

That's not to say the studious ones can't be good pilots, it just a generalization.

Flying came easier to me but I hated studying...I've got another student who is a smart pilot but can't fly an airplane if his life depended on it...and it does!
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I've found that too, the naturals vs the smart kids. Its especially evident for me as I'm instructing students who attend the Naval Academy. Usually the engineering students take a bit more time to get things, but are much better at doing their homework and figuring stuff out. But the political science and english majors are better at flying.

I still have only had one student that is "normal" if what you say is true. But he doesn't fly well, nor does he do his homework.
 
Engineers try to think too hard about it. Instead of just doing it and learning from that, they seem to disect the simplest things.
 
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