You know you're a CFI when...

[Roger, Roger]

i am REALLY good at not letting the nosewheel touch at all while making a soft field touch and go.

Yeah, that's fun.

...you go up in actual IFR and shoot 5 approaches (with 2 landings) in the time it takes a student to do 3.

...the only times you need more than 3 fingers on the yoke are during takeoff, landing, and when the student is mis-operating the controls to the point where you need to take them.

 

[Blip16]

Yeah, that's fun.

...you go up in actual IFR and shoot 5 approaches (with 2 landings) in the time it takes a student to do 3.

...the only times you need more than 3 fingers on the yoke are during takeoff, landing, and when the student is mis-operating the controls to the point where you need to take them.

man, my hands are hardly ever even near the yoke. yeah i am ready, but i don't show it to the student.

 

[Roger, Roger]

man, my hands are hardly ever even near the yoke. yeah i am ready, but i don't show it to the student.

Oops, meant to say that when YOU are flying you need no more than 3 fingers.

Yeah, no hands on the yoke when the student is flying unless absolutely necessary to prevent imminent bent metal.

 

[Brian Z]

i am REALLY good at not letting the nosewheel touch at all while making a soft field touch and go.

The first time I did that was when the DPE asked me to do it on my private ride.

 

[positiveR8]

...you're riding shotgun and you remind your friend to yell CLEAR before turning the keys to his honda

 

[bdhill1979]

i am REALLY good at not letting the nosewheel touch at all while making a soft field touch and go.

That is one of my requirements for a signoff, they have to do a soft field touch and go without letting the nose wheel down.

Of course they sometimes struggle with it until I do it with the aforementioned three fingers on the controls saying "now you just hold it off, ride the wheelie, tower is judging for style points....."

 

[moxiepilot]

...you recite FAR referrences like referring to the bible "Well then let's check 91.205(b) to see if we need it and then lets check 91.213(d) to see what we need to do about it if it's broken

LOL - that you point out 91.17(a)(2) is seldomly recognized by a student although the other 3 they've memorized for the written...and you point out what the difference between them are.

We've all had good one night benders that we recover from 2 days later

 

[Douglas]

...You're at the airport from 0800 to 18:30, working and studying the whole time and you make $29, before taxes.

true story today. At least the coffee was free.

 

[Roger, Roger]

Yeah, that's about how it went here. The highest ceiling all day was OVC003, school minimums are 400', so no go even for IFR flight.

 

[Douglas]

I know I'm employed, just some weeks it just doesn't feel like it.

 

[ILS37R]

I know I'm employed, just some weeks it just doesn't feel like it.

...when you're not excited about proposed tax rebates because--despite "working" six days a week--the government always send you a check come tax time, anyway.

 

[Blip16]

...You're at the airport from 0800 to 18:30, working and studying the whole time and you make $29, before taxes.

true story today. At least the coffee was free.

i had a day like that on monday, only mine was 830 to 1545 and i was paid for 8.9 of it!

now yesterday was 0830 to 2115 and was only paid for 7

 

[TheresaPilot]

When you do slow flight in a C152 when the winds aloft are 50 mph and ask ATC how fast you are going because you know that you are going backwards.

When you do slow flight in a 172 and can get the airplane on the GPS to go the wrong direction.

 

[TheresaPilot]

...You're at the airport from 0800 to 18:30, working and studying the whole time and you make $29, before taxes.

true story today. At least the coffee was free.

And that, my friend, is why I call it a hobby, and not a job. I've had those days.

 

[Fly_Unity]

haha, this thread is awesome, and most of its so true!

 

[jdlilfan]

Yeah, that's about how it went here. The highest ceiling all day was OVC003, school minimums are 400', so no go even for IFR flight.

Lucky! Ours are 1000 and 3... .

...You're at the airport from 0800 to 18:30, working and studying the whole time and you make $29, before taxes.

true story today. At least the coffee was free.

That has been this whole month...and the coffee is BYOB! Wish I could get per diem for being a CFI.

 

[GlenA]

--- you get really good at the hand-slap ("No, the flaps DO NOT come up first in a go-around".... Or my personal favorite, reaching for the mixture instead of the throttle on short final....)

 

[GlenA]

I know I'm employed, just some weeks it just doesn't feel like it.

ain't that the truth...I usually get that feeling after looking at my bank account....

 

[Roger, Roger]

...you get into a discussion about how an RMI works on an internet message board.

 

[Douglas]

...you get into a discussion about how an RMI works on an internet message board.

:laff:
That one made me laugh.