Originally Posted by
Varsity
If you're intimidated by getting your CFI you should find another career. 121 training will be far more difficult.
I'm amazed at the amount of people who try bypassing the CFI route. It's probably the easiest and most enjoyable 1,000 hours I ever flew. You'll be lucky to have a job flying an airplane at all soon. Take what you can get.
My issue is not a reluctance to work hard at something. And I’m not afraid of teaching. Or anything like that.
I’ve been attending a school with almost no guidance on anything at all (yes my fault for not asking the right questions when I handed them my money), but CFi has been the most difficult to navigate when there no real classroom help, or an organized curriculum. They handed out a boxed set and the cfi kit was pretty incomplete compared to the instrument and commercial kits that I was able to work through fine on my own.
The CFI prep set was just a copy of the private syllabus with supplementary information to help pass the writtens. I need checkride prep help and all of the programs (quick CFI finishing courses) that I’m finding are pretty expensive.
I know that flying is continusous education. I’m fine with that. I just need some direction on how to proceed or I need to find another way.