JustinS
Well-Known Member
For me honestly the ones where I had incredible feeling were the following:
- First solo and taxiing right up close behind an American Eagle ERJ in my little Cessna. I remember I annoyed tower because they kept getting cleared for the option when I needed a clearance to land. (Our school requires full stop taxi backs.) I learned later what cleared for the option meant....
- When I passed my private checkride.
- After getting my PPL, a few days later I got checked out in an Archer and found out what's it like to fly in shorts in a t-shirt exploring with no CFIs or strict flight schools to be found. A friend and I took the Archer on a cross country GTU-BMQ-AQO, got BBQ then went over Lake Travis before doing a touch n go on a 12,000' runway at AUS right behind a JetBlue ERJ-190. My first time at a big airport put a huge smile on my face. Then flew over downtown Austin then up over my parents house and back to GTU. One of the most memorable flights I've done so far!
- Pattern work on a grass strip in the Citabria during my tail wheel training.
- Passing my instrument rating and then using it to fly a 172 from Ohio to Texas only 2 weeks later.
- All my commercial multi time building trips. Including one flying into DAL at sunset.
- Intentionally flying an airplane upside down.
- Passing my MEI checkride, four days later my SEI addon, then 3 days later my CFII.
- Some of my students first solos.
- All my students passing checkrides.
- When students tell me how much they appreciate everything I taught them or for not giving up on them when they struggled with their training.
- My XC time is little right now, but XCs between 250 and 1000 miles with all kinds of weather are very memorable to me.
I have many more moments, but those are moments that defined my training and a bulk of my time as a CFI.
- First solo and taxiing right up close behind an American Eagle ERJ in my little Cessna. I remember I annoyed tower because they kept getting cleared for the option when I needed a clearance to land. (Our school requires full stop taxi backs.) I learned later what cleared for the option meant....
- When I passed my private checkride.
- After getting my PPL, a few days later I got checked out in an Archer and found out what's it like to fly in shorts in a t-shirt exploring with no CFIs or strict flight schools to be found. A friend and I took the Archer on a cross country GTU-BMQ-AQO, got BBQ then went over Lake Travis before doing a touch n go on a 12,000' runway at AUS right behind a JetBlue ERJ-190. My first time at a big airport put a huge smile on my face. Then flew over downtown Austin then up over my parents house and back to GTU. One of the most memorable flights I've done so far!
- Pattern work on a grass strip in the Citabria during my tail wheel training.
- Passing my instrument rating and then using it to fly a 172 from Ohio to Texas only 2 weeks later.
- All my commercial multi time building trips. Including one flying into DAL at sunset.
- Intentionally flying an airplane upside down.
- Passing my MEI checkride, four days later my SEI addon, then 3 days later my CFII.
- Some of my students first solos.
- All my students passing checkrides.
- When students tell me how much they appreciate everything I taught them or for not giving up on them when they struggled with their training.
- My XC time is little right now, but XCs between 250 and 1000 miles with all kinds of weather are very memorable to me.
I have many more moments, but those are moments that defined my training and a bulk of my time as a CFI.
