You must be a CFI they said...

unclassified said:
No luck. Definitely talent.They said in the interview that they loved my experience and background, as it matched exactly with with what they did. Kicked butt in GS and in training and they had the rep of being the toughest 121 training in the US. So lack of college wasn't an issue.
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You know what I love? A guy that can see a joke through to the end AND make people believe it on the way.
 
He's totally the baddest dude on the entire aviation internet that has ever professed himself to be.
 
I pooped today.

That is all anyone cares about. Go poop there and poop in as many places as you can where they have pooped. It won't make you any better most likely, but more poops make you better.

Most on this forum have pooped in 1 or 2 places. Those in charge of hiring have only pooped in three. They don't like people that have pooped in 5 or more...

That is life
 
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Pachong said:
I feel like getting your CFI Is definitely the hardest thing you're gonna do, but at least once it's achieved you can just coast all the way up to 1500 hours or whatever you're looking to do.
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It isn't really that hard at all. It is another checkride, and a good deal of studying. There are things in life that actually are "hard." Working 18 hour days is "hard." Making it through law, engineering or medical school is "hard." Designing an airplane is "hard."

Passing a CFI checkride is one of the easier things you can do in life. After doing it, the demand for your services in aviation roughly quadruples. The prerequisites to getting it are "easy" - study some materials that are FREELY available, that you should really already know anyway. Buy some other CFI's lunch and have them give you a few mock orals.

Really, it is a test that lasts a few hours. And you know all of the questions and answers in advance.

As to whether it makes you a better pilot - there are plenty of anecdotal stories out there. I know that the insurance company requires CFIs for all kinds of thing the regs don't. There is a reason they want CFI's around - we tend to bend fewer airplanes, and the actuarial tables back that up. You are four times less likely to die with a CFI in the airplane. [source: http://flighttraining.aopa.org/pdfs/instructional.pdf ]
 
Get the CFI so you can get your CFII. Practice your craft. Collect job offers like it aint not thing.
 
SteveC said:
I went back and read that post and I don't see where he ever claimed that he had achieved greatness. Maybe I missed it.
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Most folks that know me know that I'm reasonably mediocre at everything I've done in life, but it hasn't stopped me from working my ass off at rectifying this most unfortunate status in life.
 
SteveC said:
I went back and read that post and I don't see where he ever claimed that he had achieved greatness. Maybe I missed it.
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Yeah I didn't say that he did, I asked if there was anything he had achieved greatness at, and he hadn't responded.

He said you HAD to be an instructor to be a great pilot, which to me IMPLIED he might think he's a "great pilot".
 
Bonanzaman said:
Yeah I didn't say that he did, I asked if there was anything he had achieved greatness at, and he hadn't responded.

He said you HAD to be an instructor to be a great pilot, which to me IMPLIED he might think he's a "great pilot".
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I mean...I haven't killed myself yet or been violated.

But neither has @Boris Badenov.

So I've got that going for me.

Which is nice.
 
Bonanzaman said:
Yeah I didn't say that he did, I asked if there was anything he had achieved greatness at, and he hadn't responded.

He said you HAD to be an instructor to be a great pilot, which to me IMPLIED he might think he's a "great pilot".
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I can see that. Same way that "You gonna tell me what you've achieved greatness at?" seems to IMPLY that he actually said that. :)
 
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