R
Roger, Roger
Guest
:yeahthat:
...you have several hundred hours of multi time, and most of it was spent with one engine idling and a scanty few knots away from a Vmc roll.
meritflyer
Well-Known Member
Your wife hates you.
c172captain
Well-Known Member
...your book of lesson plans that you spent weeks working on has only been used once, and even that was just for a quick confirmation
...your students think you're lying when they ask you a question that you don't know the answer to
...you can't count flight instructing as a source of income because your pay on a monthly basis is so sporadic
...part of your routine when you get to the airport is to misplace or disable something to see if your student catches it
...the idea of a christmas bonus has long been abandoned by your subconcious
...you are happy to miss lunch if it means squeezing in one more student
...your students think you're lying when they ask you a question that you don't know the answer to
...you can't count flight instructing as a source of income because your pay on a monthly basis is so sporadic
...part of your routine when you get to the airport is to misplace or disable something to see if your student catches it
...the idea of a christmas bonus has long been abandoned by your subconcious
...you are happy to miss lunch if it means squeezing in one more student
get that all the time...."oh, do you want to leave that block open to eat lunch?"....nah, i'll grab a granola bar and eat at the end of the day
:laff:
R
Roger, Roger
Guest
...flying the airplane down short final while fishing a barf bag out of the back seat, then flying a landing in a 20kt gusty x-wind while your student barfs into the bag is just another day at the office.
c172captain
Well-Known Member
...you've sent in video clips of a few of your lessons to The Discovery Channel to try to get them to have a new version of "The Deadliest Jobs"
nocturnalaviator
AI Jedi
Your know your a CFII when...
Your scan confidence is so great and swift that you can multi-task anything or drive and text all at the same time and credit your pilot skills for it.
You drive and think because your a CFI you know what the hell is going on and everyone else is clueless.
Bets are paid not in money, but in food.
TRUTH commercials don't even phase you, you can always be found with a cup of coffee and a cigarette, those who oppose can go to hell. You'll quit when you get that airline job. LOL
You go somewhere with an intercom (bank, fast food) and say standby, affirm, say again?
You go to a bowling alley and get a kick out of entering a flight plan into the computer. (this corny dumbass has done it! LOL)
You love teaching instrument students rather than visual because the hobbs always seems to be faster that way.
#1 Way to know you're a CFI WHEN...
Collegues, Friends, and Family come to you for budgeting advice! LOL.
Your scan confidence is so great and swift that you can multi-task anything or drive and text all at the same time and credit your pilot skills for it.
You drive and think because your a CFI you know what the hell is going on and everyone else is clueless.
Bets are paid not in money, but in food.
TRUTH commercials don't even phase you, you can always be found with a cup of coffee and a cigarette, those who oppose can go to hell. You'll quit when you get that airline job. LOL
You go somewhere with an intercom (bank, fast food) and say standby, affirm, say again?
You go to a bowling alley and get a kick out of entering a flight plan into the computer. (this corny dumbass has done it! LOL)
You love teaching instrument students rather than visual because the hobbs always seems to be faster that way.
#1 Way to know you're a CFI WHEN...
Collegues, Friends, and Family come to you for budgeting advice! LOL.
Crockrocket94
Well-Known Member
Your avatar is good.
....when you know the airports, their patterns, and their freqs around you better than the local street names.
....when you know the airports, their patterns, and their freqs around you better than the local street names.
moxiepilot
Well-Known Member
When the only route you know is from the apartment to the airport...and you get lost anytime you go to visit a friend.
Blip16
Well-Known Member
so true, i have lived in this town for almost 8 years now and still don't know it very well!
Douglas
Old School KSUX
I had one student that would fly in for his multi-engine add-on, citing he wasn't sure how to get there by road and didn't care to take the time to find out!
If it gave me an excuse to fly I wouldn't take the time to find out either!
You know when you're a young CFI you get assigned an egotistic pilot for a FR or IPC and he thinks he'll be able to run the show how he wants and get the signoff. Then you get in the airplane and he looks like he's been slapped across the face when you stick to your guns.
Sound like this has happened to me? Too many times...
Greg
You know when you're a young CFI you get assigned an egotistic pilot for a FR or IPC and he thinks he'll be able to run the show how he wants and get the signoff. Then you get in the airplane and he looks like he's been slapped across the face when you stick to your guns.
Sound like this has happened to me? Too many times...
Greg
nocturnalaviator
AI Jedi
Oh I love that feeling!!!! The power of silence and the power of the pen! I usually let them (older egotistical folk who think they have an advantage over me due to age and money and treat me as such) run their mouths during pre-flight, let them talk to me about their background let them build themselves up and act like I'm nothing compared to them. I'll let them spout off war stories and what not. But thats it I just shut up and play stupid, their performance and ego says the rest and at the end of the day I drink my beer, smoke my cigarette, count my money, while they either walk away with no sign-off, or if an ATP a pink slip with no recommendation from me. LOL You can't help those who don't want it or need it.
Funny story... Student going for an MEI is sticking his chest out to me about flying IFR from San Fran to Philly at FL230 in his malibu. Dumbass, where are there any frickn clouds at the FLs usually? Anyway, long story short, the examiner gives me more background on the guy and says he declared an emergency in severe clear and 1 milllion vis because of a vacuum failure, requesting a no-gyro. All Hail Mr. IFR skyking. They're out there! :whatever:
c172captain
Well-Known Member
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Yep, I had one doctor walk into the FBO and when he saw me waiting for him (we had only spoken on the phone previously) he called me an 18 year old punk. Well, not literally; if there was a polite way of calling someone a punk then he said it.
I had heard some information about this guy...for example, that he only (and I mean only) flies on his autopilot. So we're going up for some training and I decided to pull the a/p breaker just as we were rolling onto the runway for takeoff. We're not even 100 feet in the air and he's trying to put the autopilot on. He actually starts mashing the buttons and sweating when i finally say, "just concentrate on flying the airplane." It was like I wasn't even there. The controller called and gave us a turn and turned us over to departure. I sternly told him to fly the airplane and stop trying to get the a/p to work. This time he listened and started the turn (we were in IMC). I could tell that he was way too reliant on the autopilot. We entered a 45 degree banked turn and steepening and he let the nose drop. I took over when the VSI hit 0 fpm and corrected.
After I gave the airplane back to him, I told him that he was either going to listen to me or I was going to take us back. He then proceeded to yell at me for pulling the breaker on his autopilot and that I should put it back in immediately because he wasn't comfortable flying without it. Finally I said, "Ok, it sounds like you're not going to listen to me. I have the airplane, we're heading back. Please pull out the ILS plate."
The guy acted like he was five and I didn't have to deal with that. He wouldn't even pull out the plate for me.
Funny thing: he's been "trash talking" me to one of my best friends at the airport (with whom he is friends with but doesn't realize that we are good friends).
Sorry for the rant, it just aggravates me.
Greg
I had heard some information about this guy...for example, that he only (and I mean only) flies on his autopilot. So we're going up for some training and I decided to pull the a/p breaker just as we were rolling onto the runway for takeoff. We're not even 100 feet in the air and he's trying to put the autopilot on. He actually starts mashing the buttons and sweating when i finally say, "just concentrate on flying the airplane." It was like I wasn't even there. The controller called and gave us a turn and turned us over to departure. I sternly told him to fly the airplane and stop trying to get the a/p to work. This time he listened and started the turn (we were in IMC). I could tell that he was way too reliant on the autopilot. We entered a 45 degree banked turn and steepening and he let the nose drop. I took over when the VSI hit 0 fpm and corrected.
After I gave the airplane back to him, I told him that he was either going to listen to me or I was going to take us back. He then proceeded to yell at me for pulling the breaker on his autopilot and that I should put it back in immediately because he wasn't comfortable flying without it. Finally I said, "Ok, it sounds like you're not going to listen to me. I have the airplane, we're heading back. Please pull out the ILS plate."
The guy acted like he was five and I didn't have to deal with that. He wouldn't even pull out the plate for me.
Funny thing: he's been "trash talking" me to one of my best friends at the airport (with whom he is friends with but doesn't realize that we are good friends).
Sorry for the rant, it just aggravates me.
Greg
moxiepilot
Well-Known Member
love it.
Blip16
Well-Known Member
what will he do when he has runaway trim or a full AP failure someday?