You know you're a CFI when...

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bdhill1979 said:
oh man I do that all the time, that or if asked for my account number, or phone number I give them my certificate number.

.....I have signed off 9 first time pass instrument students in the last 6 months.....but am I current???????
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That one drives be crazy. I've done over 100 approaches in the last six months with students, but I still need to find a safety pilot to get mine in before the end of February.



...you constantly check the engine gauges when riding in a friend's car.
 
DaveC said:
That one drives be crazy. I've done over 100 approaches in the last six months with students, but I still need to find a safety pilot to get mine in before the end of February.
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"Would you mind if I demonstrated one?"

Unless you don't get any safe clouds out there...
 
...you tell your significant other over dinner that three people tried to kill you today and they are neither concerned nor interested in hearing the story.
 
(For the guys in the Northeast/Midwest)....You know your a CFI when you spend more time Pre-Heating and scraping ice and snow, than actual flying.

...When you use the word "Common Sense" 10x's a day.

You know you are a former CFI when....

You go to a regional airline, and your actually of use to your Captain for the first couple hundred hours :p OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
 
Yeah... on the "currency" one, just like SlantG suggested, I demonstrated approaches & holds several times under the hood with the students. It actually helped them work on two things: Looking out for traffic, and scanning my instruments as well.

I would purposefully start to get off the radial/slope/loc to see if they would catch it and then have them tell me what to do in order to correct it. Worked wonders... and I stayed current. :)

...It's cold/rainy/hot/humid/etc. out and you say "Go preflight, and I'll be right out." ;)

Regarding the "Former CFI" comments:

...You've been working for an airline for 6 months now and you decide to go up and get re-current in a 172, thinking to yourself that your an instructor and you have several hundred hours in the plane... so you'll just go up for a quick 3 landings to get current. Immediately after a squirly takeoff... followed by a horrible approach and porpoised landing where you try to do a quick go-around with the flaps still down... you think to yourself... this was a bad idea... I should have had an instructor with me!

Bob
 
I might have to try that with my instrument students. Although I might be able to talk my new boss into letting me use the plane for free to stay current.
 
DaveC said:
I might have to try that with my instrument students. Although I might be able to talk my new boss into letting me use the plane for free to stay current.
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Personally, I feel like I work harder when I'm watching an instrument student fly an approach in actual that if I fly it myself; especially when a student full-scales the localizer.

I count a student's approaches and holds in actual for my own currency.
 
Doug Taylor said:
I knew I was a full-fledged CFII when I'd start salivating at signing on a new instrument student because I knew I was going to be eating lunch at Zunigas at KWVI after the NDB approach.
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...they don't put beans in their taco salad, come on mang. AND no free refills?!

Did you know Andrew the airplane washer clean up guy when you were at RHV?
 
...a student randomly decides to try to pull the plane out of the hangar by themselves for the first time (without permission of course) and dings the tail and you get blamed for it... :banghead:
 
Soku39 said:
For CFIs in the NE and upper midwest:

You got to log the massive amount of 5 hours in December.
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I think I set a new record in the last 4 days. I have 2.3 hours logged!

MikeOH58 said:
(For the guys in the Northeast/Midwest)....You know your a CFI when you spend more time Pre-Heating and scraping ice and snow, than actual flying.
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They invented hangers for a reason ;)


*You know your a CFI when you complete the fastest touch and go ever recorded.
 
beechpilot said:
...you forget what it's like in the left seat.
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I actually had to sit in the left seat today for the first time in over a year... THAT was awkward.

First thing I said when I got in the plane "Holy crap, this is awkward" his response "I don't know if I'm comfortable with my instructor saying that" LOL
 
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