frustration
 

how much have you guys gotten frustrated during your training.

Why don't you tell us what your frustrated about? Maybe we can help :D

Is your name Jack, Jim, or Captain? ;)

Ah well flight training is challenging at times. If there are problems it is usually with weather and equipment, but sometimes you get a bum instructor, run out of money, or have trouble with something.

One time the treasurer of the organization I flew with was embezzling my payments. The treasurers changed, the new one cancelled my training and sent me an erroneous bill. It took 6 months to prove using money order receipts and postal traces that I had paid for every flight. Needlesstosay it wasted a lot of time.

Another time right before a checkride the engine blew a cylinder head off and I had to put her down off airport. That one only took a few weeks.

Another time I got the proverbial bad apple instructor. Wouldn't teach me anything and wouldn't sign me off. I got rid of him and passed my checkride two weeks later with another one.

Well, get ready for a laugh. During my PP Checkride, we were both seated, started the plane, and went to do a brake check and we didn't budge. One word...Chocked. It broke the ice and gave us both a chuckle, rest of the flight was a gem.

You should have jumped the chocks.:D

I can tell you whats real frustrating is when you have an upcoming checkride and you practice practice practice until your nailing the PTS down cold - then come checkride day you go up and make the stupidest little mistakes for no reason. There's just something about having that DPE next to you that scrambles your brain. Luckily they know that and take that into consideration when they are grading you. If you can use the same DPE for multiple rides you will get real comfortable with him and just fly the airplane ;)

well i go to a 141 school. the grind is really getting to me, it seems like ur constantly being judged even with your instructor, and when u make a mistake you feel like an idiot, so your so pressured to be perfect when u know ur still learning and im a commercial student.

HA! You think that's bad - you should try military flight training! We are nothing if not brutally honest with expectations of nothing less than perfect! We try to make exceptions for the Air Force students though since we understand they will always have a 8000'ft + RWY available to them :D

-SS

SLpilot,

I know how you feel! I was constantly striving for perfection on my PPL and Instrument and when I didn't get it, I hated myself for it.

At least you know that you take your flying extremely seriously. If you didn't, you wouldn't be giving yourself such a hard time.

Good luck with your commerical. I've finished the books for it and start the flying in June. Pretty thrilled

I think we all get irritated from time to time. I logged 8.7 hours if X-Country time last night, and while being vectored for the ILS 30 at OPN I almost blew the apporach due to the ATC workload. I am an instrument student, and with that long of a flight I was getting worn out. I had the needles coming alive, a left turn to 302, and a traffic alert all at once. I was scanning for the traffic and turning at the same time and started to blow through the glideslope. I was able to recover, fly the approach, and pulled the foggles off when I hit my MDA. We all have our issues while training, and thats why we train.

<P>It had been 2 months since I had gotten to fly because of the weather and once the weather was perfect the plane had&nbsp;the left brake jammed that was really frustration .</P>

well can you explain me how you scanned for traffic with the foggles on?:eek: i hope you had a safety pilot with you;)

talking about the original post...well 141 requires that kind of training thats why they give you the commercial ticket with a little more than 190hrs...thats why i prefer 61 i like to go with my own pace and to have the training organizedin more efficient way.

That was the story of my PPL training. I was weathered out 75% of the flights because I had the early slot, and we had tons of low-vis/fog:mad:

SL pilot. Don't worry, everyone gets frustrated because of the need to excel. The worse judge on you is yourself. Go out and have a fun flight if you can. Also, you'll hit this wall that somehow gets every pilot at some stage in their training. You will not be able to advance. Just go with the flow, and a few flights later you'll start improving once again and life's good. Good Luck

When i get mad with my traning I just go play some flight sim and practice up

I got really frustrated during my instrument training. I think everyone goes through something like this over the course of their flying career. For me, flying approach after approach until I got it right for a few weeks was enough to make me want to pull out my hair. My instructor suggested an IFR X-country to mix things up and it worked. Got us out of the grind of doing back to back approaches.

I had another time in my commercial training where I ran out of money and couldn't fly for 10 months, one lesson before my scheduled checkride. That sucked... it was a tough time, but you start flying again, and soon forget about it. Try to come up with ways to cope with getting discouraged, it happens to pretty much everybody, for me, I just like to go up in the simplest airplane I can rent and just do some lazy VFR sightseeing, that is the most satisfying thing I can suggest.

I agree. I always review flights in my head, and go over mistakes again and again. It gets annoying, but I learn from them and am able to correct for it the next time around.

Keep your eye on the goal, and take a flight now and then to just have fun, like people have said. Go sight seeing, do a few circuts around the pattern, etc. and it will help clear your mind.

Try and find a hobby that relieves your stresses. Try not to take aviation as serious as some take it. Remember you are YOU first and pilot second. Leave your flying at the airport and for times of studying, and that should be it. 141 flight training is not as chaotic as it would seem. You get less hours, but you eliminate some of the repetativeness of purposeless xc's. Take your down time to do something other than aviation based, should help with the burnout which sounds like what you are getting. But for real, stay away from the airplane.

When I first started my flight traning my instructor told me there will be days you leave here thinking man I have this stuff down he also told me that there will be days you leave thinking man I stink at this . So try not to be critical I suppose is the key when things get stressfull