I did it
#21
I experienced a variety of performances. My first was a young woman who was extremely capable but went off looking for career opportunites every other week. The second was the best, he would do anything to help you, was extremely good at teaching, and inspired the heck out of me. The example still inspires me to this day. The third was a time waster, a mediocre teacher, and did not know much about commercial manuevers. He was a 90-day zero to hero flight school product. I fired him after about a month. The replacement was a good instructor and a nice person, but had a short temper. The sixth was a young guy at AllATPs and he taught a system of flying more than skills, but it worked and I give him a good mark. For endorsements I went to a variety of teachers, but since endorsements are not checkride graded you cannot compare them to checkride instruction, it's a different focus.
An example to illustrate this occurred when I obtained my high performance signoff. We started it with a trip around the pattern and no instruction. At the hold short line I got my usual checklist and the guy says "put that away". As soon as we are airborne I hear this loud "woooooo hoooooo this baby will climb!!!". When we got back a minute or two later he says, here's your signoff and didn't charge a dime. Turns out he disapproves of the high performance signoff.
Last edited by Cubdriver; 06-01-2007 at 08:45 AM.
#22
-LAFF
#25
A CFI is far more likely to waste time on account of being anal-retentive about your safety as a pilot than by an alleged wish to con someone into an hour's worth of instruction. You cannot know which it is. My first flight instructor took 22 hours to solo me because she was worried I would forget to extend my downwind or pull the carb heat knob at the right time. People don't go into flight training to make money off students because everyone knows there isn't much. The FBO itself may be trying to pad the till, and I have experience of this when going for aircraft checkouts, but there again you don't know if it's that or a genuine regard for safey and to assume you do know is hogwash you don't. Drawing a connection to their pay, and a minor one at that, is not proof they are misusing the privilege.
Dude get over it. Flight training is expensive and you got what you paid for. It's time to move on to other things to be stuck on. Like whether Hotel Paris... excuse me, Paris Hilton is trying to avoid jail time.
Dude get over it. Flight training is expensive and you got what you paid for. It's time to move on to other things to be stuck on. Like whether Hotel Paris... excuse me, Paris Hilton is trying to avoid jail time.
Last edited by Cubdriver; 06-01-2007 at 09:31 AM.
#26
#27
A CFI is far more likely to waste time on account of being anal-retentive about your safety as a pilot than by an alleged wish to con someone into an hour's worth of instruction. You cannot know which it is. My first flight instructor took 22 hours to solo me because she was worried I would forget to extend my downwind or pull the carb heat knob at the right time. People don't go into flight training to make money off students because everyone knows there isn't much. The FBO itself may be trying to pad the till, and I have experience of this when going for aircraft checkouts, but there again you don't know if it's that or a genuine regard for safey and to assume you do know is hogwash you don't. Drawing a connection to their pay, and a minor one at that, is not proof they are misusing the privilege.
Dude get over it. Flight training is expensive and you got what you paid for. It's time to move on to other things to be stuck on. Like whether Hotel Paris... excuse me, Paris Hilton is trying to avoid jail time.
Dude get over it. Flight training is expensive and you got what you paid for. It's time to move on to other things to be stuck on. Like whether Hotel Paris... excuse me, Paris Hilton is trying to avoid jail time.
-LAFF
#28
Flight training isn't expensive. Its CFIs dragging it out to log another hour in their books that makes it so...
Any one training in N. Cal avoid Blue Ridge Aeronautics at Nut Tree airport.
-LAFF
#29
How many hours do you allege this guy padded onto it? Average is something like 65 hours. Don't be hung up on the old "I do everything in half the time" thing.
Last edited by Cubdriver; 06-01-2007 at 09:59 AM.
#30
So LAFF, why didn't you fire the guy? Shouldn't you have taken control of your learning? I've never met a student who hasn't compared instructors. I won't lie, there are unethical instructors out there. But that's why a student hires the instructor who works best for them.