Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Comparing UPT to a CFI check is ridiculous. My CFI check ride (before I went to UPT) was harder than any checkride I've ever done, military or civilian. 8 hour oral and a flight with a gruff old dude that made the biggest hammer at Sheppard seem like a santa. Pilot training was tougher, but only because it was a year long event with ridiculously high standards, whereas a CFI ride was a single event. I'd have taken any of the 10 checkrides at Sheppard over my CFI check any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
I do agree with Drum on the sign. Nothing wrong with the sign, every company with pilots should have a similar sign hanging over the entrances to their ops. It's not so much arrogance as it is attempting to push a mindset of professionalism and excellence.
Nothing was harder than ASCS by correspondence! I could only WISH I were an air molecule gallivanting through a jet engine…Try writing a 10-page paper on a topic you don’t understand, using words you’ve never heard of, based on videos you didn’t actually watch, and articles you never read while being locked out of your AF port hole for non-completion of IA training that was due YESTERDAY, when this paper you just started at 2200 is due by MIDNIGHT, and Dos Gringos and Jack Daniels are pounding on your proverbial billeting room door…all while knowing you left your bar tab open, and your bros know it, and the locals you just met and tried to impress know it, and you’ve already been passed over twice for PME non-completion and your interest-only mortgage on your Vegas mini mansion is about to balloon and you really need that extra scratch, or at least this job.
No way a CFI check will make you sweat like that.
True story.
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