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
Bitter much?
I'm not in my first 200 hours, and yes, I do know that all students are different.
Some students have better aptitudes than others, some learn faster, some don't want to learn, some get money directly from their parents and don't care, some use an eternity to "get" things, but that's how it is, everyone is different.
Sure I've had some students frustrate me to no end, but for the most part they are the exception. Try and find any other job where everything is a rose garden 24/7.
All in all, the ups of working as a flight instructor, that means working with the students, not management, has way more positives than it has negatives.
I feel bad that you really had such a bad experience with flight instructing, but then maybe you weren't really good at it, or it wasn't for you, or a mix of the two.
I just know that I really enjoy working with students, I'm able to get most of them through their courses in due time, and some of them after quite an extensive time.
I still look forward to every flight, it's not like any other teaching job out there, that's for sure