Douglas
Old School KSUX
Yeah, teaching mid-west college kids in the winter turns out to be a seasonal holiday. No body flies, nobody works. I guess they have better things to do when the sun actually does shine.
eh,
Yeah, teaching mid-west college kids in the winter turns out to be a seasonal holiday. No body flies, nobody works. I guess they have better things to do when the sun actually does shine.
eh,
Blip16
Well-Known Member
must just be where you are. other than november when i ran out of things to do other than fly i have be swamped this year. last year too! starting to burn me out.
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
I do that all the time in the Twinstar...~140 hours in the plane of which about 4 or 5 are left seat.
Jfk-Pilot
Well-Known Member
yea i tried taxing from the left seat, and i just couldn't continue, so at the run up area, i quickly changed seats...felt much better.
Blip16
Well-Known Member
you know i flew yesterday for the first time in a long time from the RIGHT seat with a new student of mine in the 172, it felt weird to me. the right seat is home in any other plane i fly, but other than a student i had 2 summers ago, i have never flown in a 172 from the right seat, always the left. All i teach is intial CFI, so normally i am playing the dumb student, but man was that ever weird, but i pulled out an awesome ride on the left wheel only landing, probably rode it out for a good 15 seconds before it finally dropped. i was sick of my student landing sideways
Jfk-Pilot
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you know i flew yesterday for the first time in a long time from the RIGHT seat with a new student of mine in the 172, it felt weird to me. the right seat is home in any other plane i fly, but other than a student i had 2 summers ago, i have never flown in a 172 from the right seat, always the left. All i teach is intial CFI, so normally i am playing the dumb student, but man was that ever weird, but i pulled out an awesome ride on the left wheel only landing, probably rode it out for a good 15 seconds before it finally dropped. i was sick of my student landing sideways
yea, i mostly get pvt and commercial students so, a bunch of right seat time. But yea, i did all my training in 172's and seminoles, and now i teach in the piper warriors and arrows which i have zero left seat time in... so whenever i get in the left seat, i feel like everything is just sooo out of place...
that's kinda like me, when i show my students soft field landings... and just for how long you can actually keep the nose wheel of the ground.
Blip16
Well-Known Member
i haven't taught a private pilot level student now for nearly 2 years so it is trying my patience for sure!yea, i mostly get pvt and commercial students so, a bunch of right seat time. But yea, i did all my training in 172's and seminoles, and now i teach in the piper warriors and arrows which i have zero left seat time in... so whenever i get in the left seat, i feel like everything is just sooo out of place...
that's kinda like me, when i show my students soft field landings... and just for how long you can actually keep the nose wheel of the ground.
etflies
Keeping calm, Chiving on.
I thought I was a patient person. Then I taught my first private pilot student. I quickly found out what patience is. Yikes.
You know you're a CFI when you can explain the aerodynamics of, why we perform and what the PTS standards are for various maneuvers, while coaching your student through them and at the same time you can think about what you need to get at the store on the way back that night.
You know you're a CFI when you can explain the aerodynamics of, why we perform and what the PTS standards are for various maneuvers, while coaching your student through them and at the same time you can think about what you need to get at the store on the way back that night.
29.92inHg
Well-Known Member
...you laugh when your student can't find the zero on the transponder because its the button on the other end (and you were waiting for him to do it)
...your day off revolves around icing
...someone calls when you are busy and you say "I'll call you back in 0.7"
Tower: 123X Break off your approach and circle west
Student: Circle West 123X (starts turning east)
Tower: 123x I said Circle West
Student: Roger (continues turning east)
Tower: 123X Turn to the Sun
Student: to the sun123X
...and you just sat there to make the point he wasn't ready for his checkride, you go inside and he says can I have my sign off now.
...you read this entire thread
...your day off revolves around icing
...someone calls when you are busy and you say "I'll call you back in 0.7"
Tower: 123X Break off your approach and circle west
Student: Circle West 123X (starts turning east)
Tower: 123x I said Circle West
Student: Roger (continues turning east)
Tower: 123X Turn to the Sun
Student: to the sun123X
...and you just sat there to make the point he wasn't ready for his checkride, you go inside and he says can I have my sign off now.
...you read this entire thread
R
Roger, Roger
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Your favorite words in the world are "I passed".
The words "I failed" make your stomach sink and send your brain into overdrive. (been a bad week for me, lets just say I made some mista...*cough* learning opportunities).
The words "I failed" make your stomach sink and send your brain into overdrive. (been a bad week for me, lets just say I made some mista...*cough* learning opportunities).
this is a great thread
...in the winter when your left ankle has a permanent burn from the heater and your right ankle is freezing from the leak in the air vent
...you can tell a bad landing is coming on the downwind
Douglas
Old School KSUX
:laff:
So very true. Something like knocking the flap lever from your student and saying "look at your airspeed!, WTF!" Followed by a ground session of "Lets re-construct what just happened." Only to have to do it again next flight:banghead:.
ILS37R
Well-Known Member
On a good day, I can spot a bad landing while walking to the plane...
...or maybe that's a bad day.
***
...your student spends half an hour preflighting the plane and declares it airworthy. You're still twenty feet away when you turn on your heel and head back inside.
...you know it takes exactly 1.8 of uninterrupted, uncoordinated flight for you to become slightly nauseous.
...you draw blank stares when you present your credentials at Educator Discount Sales.
Douglas
Old School KSUX
Funny, these two things fits ONE of my students.
I call it the "half-hour of power".
And no joke, early on he once was so all over the place he made himself puke all over himself. After we got cleaned up I told him that not puking would be incentive enough to look outside and hold it level.
vikingair
Well-Known Member
...you can "see" turbulence, airflow over the wing and the airport from 20 out
...the day before a checkride you have an impromptu landing competition with your student and they win
...you can do a touch and go without the nose wheel ever touching down
...you've driven dowm the street late at night stradiling the yellow line
...you think about keeping the cup from your local fast food joint cuz of the free refills
...you have a folded up approach plate in your wallet instead of money
...you've used cracks, grooves and markings on the ramp to "feet fly" radials, holds, traffic patterns and WCAs
...the day before a checkride you have an impromptu landing competition with your student and they win
...you can do a touch and go without the nose wheel ever touching down
...you've driven dowm the street late at night stradiling the yellow line
...you think about keeping the cup from your local fast food joint cuz of the free refills
...you have a folded up approach plate in your wallet instead of money
...you've used cracks, grooves and markings on the ramp to "feet fly" radials, holds, traffic patterns and WCAs
