Originally Posted by
OldManReverend
oh crakey! i want to throw up. clearly, you are in the first 200 hours of CFI'ing... Pretty soon you will come to realize, that not everybody can succeed at flying airplanes. And the more you let wash out and dont spoon feed them everything, the more you help out our industry. Then of course wait until your letting them try Vmc demo for the first time, and watch how they fail miserably, damn near putting you into a flat spin, just because they didn't want to study the maneuvers because American Idol was on last night. i can only vividly remember about 5 out of 100 of students that I enjoyed flying with. good luck and keep drinking that kool-aid
OK Old Man....I'll add to Photon's list:
1) Flying with students and walking to the airplane in the cool CA morning and flying over the Sierras during the sunrise!
2) Seeing my students grasp the material and the satisfaction of their faces and then seeing them graduate and move onto the next step where they may do some GOOD WORK!
3) Knowing that I could have gotten out of my job a long time ago and be making a lot more money at a variety of jobs, yet still dreading the day that I have to leave my job.
And I'm NOT in my first 200 hours of instructing.
It sounds to me like Photon is enjoying his job. It sounds like he might actually enjoy instructing right now. Maybe that will last for a a month longer or it might last for years - who knows; but you coming down on him for no reason comes across as just a bad attitude or sour grapes on your part.
Where in his post did he mention letting students get by without being prepared? Where do you get the idea that he passes everybody?
i can only vividly remember about 5 out of 100 of students that I enjoyed flying with
It certainly sounds like YOU had a tough time instructing and believe that everyone should have the same experience; well...that just isn't the case.
USMCFLYR